| abstract |
The invention relates to the use of a cyclohexane polycarboxylic acid or of one of its derivatives, or of a mixture of one or more of said acids as plasticizers in the production of plastics which are rated toxicologically favourable. In animal experiments, using rodents, to which a daily oral dose of 1000 mg/kg body weight of the corresponding cyclohexane polycarboxylic acid, or a derivative thereof, or a mixture of two or more of said acids is administered by oesophageal tube over a period of at least 14 days, said dose, in comparison to untreated control animals, leads neither to a significant increase in the weight of the liver after treatment, nor to a doubling of the specific cyanide-insensitive palmitoyl-CoA oxidase activity, measured in the liver homogenisate. |