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Table 2.

Groundwater

Compound (name and/or code)	Mobility in soil	> 0.1 μg/L at 1 m depth for the representative usesa	Pesticidal activity	Toxicological relevance
Nicotine (as a relevant impurity)	High K _oc = 48.23 mL/g (worst‐case estimation from log K _ow)	FOCUS GW: No	Yes	Assessment not triggered. Relevant impurity

Compound (name and/or code)

Mobility in soil

> 0.1 μg/L at 1 m depth for the representative usesa

Pesticidal activity

Toxicological relevance

Nicotine (as a relevant impurity)

High

K _oc = 48.23 mL/g (worst‐case estimation from log K _ow)

FOCUS GW: No

Yes

Assessment not triggered. Relevant impurity

FOCUS: Forum for the Co‐ordination of Pesticide Fate Models and their Use; K _oc: Soil Organic Carbon‐Water partition coefficient; K _ow: octanol/water partition coefficient.

At least one FOCUS scenario or a relevant lysimeter.