HHCB – German Environmental Specimen Bank - Umweltprobenbank

HHCB Galaxolide®; formula: C18H26O; CAS Registry Number: 1222-05-5

The world's most important fragrance among the chemical group of polycyclic musks

HHCB is a polycyclic musk used as synthetic fragrance, e.g., in cosmetics, personal care products like soaps, shampoos, lotions and deodorants, household and laundry cleaning products, air fresheners, papers and textiles.

Following use, HHCB enters the environment through waste waters and sewage sludge. Its degradation is slow. It is lipohilic and accumulated by organisms.

HHCB is toxic to aquatic organisms and soil organisms in prolonged tests. Moreover, weak endocrine activity was detected in laboratory tests.

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• Bream Bioindicator in rivers and lakes

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• Common bladder wrack Common brown alga of the coastal areas of the North and Baltic Sea

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• Blue mussel One of the most important edible mussel species common in the North and Baltic Sea

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• Eelpout As the only viviparous fish in German nearshore waters, it is a bioindicator in nearshore coastal marine ecosystems.

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Sampling area

• Saarländischer Verdichtungsraum Important, old-industrialised conurbation in Germany.

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• Bornhöveder Seengebiet Main water divide between the North- and Baltic Sea

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• Rhein Longest river in Germany

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• NP Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft National Park in the largest brackish water (Bodden) habitat of the world.

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• BR/NP Wattenmeere National park in the world largest connected sand and mud flats.

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• Elbe Fourth largest river basin in Central Europe

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• Verdichtungsraum Halle-Leipzig Region in the chemical triangle of Central Germany

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Sampling period

1986 - 2003

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