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Please be aware that this old REACH registration data factsheet is no longer maintained; it remains frozen as of 19th May 2023.

The new ECHA CHEM database has been released by ECHA, and it now contains all REACH registration data. There are more details on the transition of ECHA's published data to ECHA CHEM here.

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Environmental fate & pathways

Endpoint summary

Administrative data

Description of key information

Additional information

Based on the chemical structure, the estimated Koc values increase with increasing chain length from 10.57 for azelaic acid (C9) up to 433,800 for docosanoic acid (C22). Thus, remarkable adsorption potential is predicted for fatty acids starting at a chain length of 12 and higher.

According to the Mackay Level I fugacity model fatty acids with a chain length of C6, C8 and C9 partition mainly to the water phase, whereas with increasing chain length starting with C12 fatty acids partition, due to rising Koc values, to sediment and soil.

Volatilisation is not expected to be a significant transport process or dissipation rout for fatty acids in the environment.