Form for submission ofinformation specified in Annex E

of the Stockholm Convention pursuant to Article 8 of the Convention

Introductory information
Name of the submitting Party/observer / United States
Contact details (name, telephone, email) of the submitting Party/observer / Christina Thompson
202-564-0983
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Chemical name
(as used by the POPS Review Committee (POPRC)) / Short-chained chlorinated paraffins
Date of submission / February 5, 2008
(a) Sources, including as appropriate (provide summary information and relevant references)
(i) Production data: / Information provided previously by US for Annex E Feb 9, 2007
Quantity
Location
Other
(ii) Uses / Information provided previously by US for Annex E Feb 9, 2007
(iii) Releases: / Information provided previously by US for Annex E Feb 9, 2007
Discharges
Losses
Emissions
Other
(b) Hazard assessment for endpoints of concern, including consideration of toxicological interactions involving multiple chemicals (provide summary information and relevant references)
Additional information resulting from a literature search:
Braune, B.M. et al., 2005. Persistent organic pollutants and mercury in marine biota of the Canadian Arctic: An overview of spatial and temporal trends. Sci. Total Env. Vol. 351-352: 4-56.
Castells, P. et al., 2008. Occurrence of polychlorinated naphthalenes, polychlorinated biphenyls and short-chain chlorinated paraffins in marine sediments from Barcelona (Spain). Chemosphere 70(9): 1552-1562.
Iozza, S. et al., 2008. Historical Profiles of Chlorinated Paraffins and Polychlorinated Biphenyls in a Dated Sediment Core from LakeThun (Switzerland). Environ. Sci. Technol. Web release date January 18 2008.
(c) Environmental fate (provide summary information and relevant references)
Chemical/physical properties
Persistence
How are chemical/physical properties and persistence linked to environmental transport, transfer within and between environmental compartments, degradation and transformation to other chemicals? / Information provided previously by US for Annex E Feb 9, 2007
Bio-concentration or bio-accumulation factor, based on measured values (unless monitoring data are judged to meet this need)
(d) Monitoring data (provide summary information and relevant references)
(e) Exposure in local areas (provide summary information and relevant references)
- general
- as a result of longrange environmental transport
- information regarding bio-availability
(f) National and international risk evaluations, assessments or profiles and labelling information and hazard classifications, as available (provide summary information and relevant references)
Information provided previously by US for Annex E Feb 9, 2007
(g) Status of the chemical under international conventions

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