Table 2B. Potential adverse effects of a single oral administration of captan (Women who are or may be pregnant) .
| Species | Study | Dose (mg/kg bw/day) |
NOAEL(mg/kg bw/day) and critical endpoints1) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rabbit | Developmental toxicity study (the 2nd study) |
0, 10, 40, 160 | Maternal: 40 Maternal: Increased embryo resorption and postimplantation loss |
| Developmental toxicity study (the 3rd study) |
0, 10, 30, 100 | Maternal: 30 Embryo/fetus: 30 Maternal: Increase of postimplantation loss rate and the number of dead embryos Embryo/fetus: External, skeletal and soft tissue alterations |
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| Hamster | Developmental toxicity study (the 1st study) |
0, 50, 200, 400 | Maternal: 200 Embryo/fetus: 200 Maternal: Increased embryo resorption and decreased the number of viable fetuses Embryo/fetus: Tail deformation, whole body edema, complex abnomalty, etc. |
| ARfD | NOAEL: 30 SF: 100 ARfD: 0.3 |
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| The critical study for setting ARfD | Developmental toxicity study in rabbits (the 3rd study) | ||
ARfD, Acute reference dose; SF, Safety factor; NOAEL, No-observed-adverse-effect level
1) The adverse effect observed at the lowest-observed-adverse-effect level (LOAEL)