Ecotoxicology:
Bees:Topical
LD
50 for honeybees >0.011
mg/bee.Birds:Acute oral
LD
50 for mallard ducks 1142, Japanese quail 788 mg/kg.Fish:
LC
50 for harlequin fish (48 h) 0.53
mg/l; (96 h) 0.6
mg/l.
Environmental fate:
Animals:In rats, 95% of the applied dose is eliminated in urine and faeces within 8 d;
c. 74% of excreted material is unchanged dodine; metabolites include creatine and guanidine derivatives.Plant:In plants, dodine is converted to creatine by the action of a methyltransferase and simultaneous oxidative cleavage of the dodecyl moiety.
WATER SOLUBILITY: Distilled water 0.07%.