*** CHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION ***

RTECS NUMBER            : WG2160000
CHEMICAL NAME           : Sorbic acid, potassium salt
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER     : 590-00-1
LAST UPDATED            : 199706
DATA ITEMS CITED        : 8
MOLECULAR FORMULA       : C6-H7-O2.K
MOLECULAR WEIGHT        : 150.23
WISWESSER LINE NOTATION : QV1U2U2 &-KA-
COMPOUND DESCRIPTOR     : Drug
                          Mutagen
SYNONYMS/TRADE NAMES :
   * 2,4-Hexadienoic acid potassium salt
   * Potassium sorbate
   * Potassium 2,4-hexadienoate
   * Sorbistat-potassium
 
                       *** HEALTH HAZARD DATA ***
 
                        ** ACUTE TOXICITY DATA **
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LD50 - Lethal dose, 50 percent kill
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Oral
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Rodent - rat
DOSE/DURATION           : 4340 mg/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
   TRENAF Kenkyu Nenpo--Tokyo-toritsu Eisei Kenkyusho.  Annual Report of Tokyo
   Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health.  (Tokyo-toritsu Eisei
   Kenkyusho, 24-1, 3-chome, Hyakunin-cho, Shin-juku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan) V.1-
      1949/50-  Volume(issue)/page/year: 27,159,1976
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LD50 - Lethal dose, 50 percent kill
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Oral
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Rodent - mouse
DOSE/DURATION           : 3800 mg/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
   TRENAF Kenkyu Nenpo--Tokyo-toritsu Eisei Kenkyusho.  Annual Report of Tokyo
   Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health.  (Tokyo-toritsu Eisei
   Kenkyusho, 24-1, 3-chome, Hyakunin-cho, Shin-juku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan) V.1-
      1949/50-  Volume(issue)/page/year: 27,159,1976
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LD50 - Lethal dose, 50 percent kill
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Intraperitoneal
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Rodent - mouse
DOSE/DURATION           : 1300 mg/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
   FAONAU FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series.  (Rome, Italy)  No.?-57,
   1948-77.  Discontinued.  Volume(issue)/page/year: 53A,121,1974
 
                            ** MUTATION DATA **
 
TYPE OF TEST            : Cytogenetic analysis
TEST SYSTEM             : Rodent - hamster Lung
DOSE/DURATION           : 10 gm/L
REFERENCE :
   ATSUDG Archives of Toxicology, Supplement.  (Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.,
   Service Center, 44 Hartz Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094)  No.1-    1978-
   Volume(issue)/page/year: 4,41,1980
 
TYPE OF TEST            : Cytogenetic analysis
TEST SYSTEM             : Rodent - hamster Fibroblast
DOSE/DURATION           : 4 gm/L/48H
REFERENCE :
   MUREAV Mutation Research.  (Elsevier Science Pub. B.V., POB 211, 1000 AE
   Amsterdam, Netherlands) V.1-    1964-  Volume(issue)/page/year: 48,337,1977
 
TYPE OF TEST            : Sister chromatid exchange
TEST SYSTEM             : Rodent - hamster Lung
DOSE/DURATION           : 10 gm/L
REFERENCE :
   FCTOD7 Food and Chemical Toxicology.  (Pergamon Press Inc., Maxwell House,
   Fairview Park, Elmsford, NY 10523)  V.20-    1982- Volume(issue)/page/year:
   22,501,1984

                          *** STATUS IN U.S. ***
 
   EPA GENETOX PROGRAM 1988, Inconclusive: In vitro SCE-nonhuman
   
   EPA TSCA Section 8(b) CHEMICAL INVENTORY

 
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