Nicotine

Summary

Persistence. Nicotine is degraded in the environment.

Bioaccumulation. Nicotine has low potential for bioaccumulation.

Toxicity. Nicotine has very high acute toxicity.

Risk. The use of nicotine (sales data Sweden 2016) has been considered to result in low environmental risk.

This summary information comes from fass.se.

Fass environmental information for Nicotinell Peppermint (nicotine) (downloaded 2018-07-12).

Persistence: "71% degradation in 28 days (OECD 301B). 72% degradation within 10 day window."

Bioaccumulation: Log D_ow = 0.28 at pH 7.4 (OECD 107)

Acute toxicity: There are data for 3 trophic levels, lowest for crustacean (Daphnia pulex) 242 microg/L.

PEC/PNEC is based on sales data in Sweden in year 2016. PEC/PNEC = 0.70 which gives the risk low.

Author: Health and Medical Care Administration, Region Stockholm