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C15-19 ALKANE

Not on the EU Annex III list

C15-C19 Alkane is a mixture of alkanes with 15 to 19 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain.

C15-19 ALKANE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional category Solvent, with CAS number 64742-46-7; and EC number 934-956-3. CosIng records a restriction against it (II/875 Distillates (petroleum), hydrotreated middle, except if the full refining history is known and it can be shown that the substance from which it is produced is not a carcinogen.), so check the corresponding Annex entry before formulating. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 2 product labels, reaching position 4 on Nivea.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
64742-46-7;
EC NUMBER
934-956-3
COSING FUNCTIONS
Solvent
COSING RESTRICTION
II/875 Distillates (petroleum), hydrotreated middle, except if the full refining history is known and it can be shown that the substance from which it is produced is not a carcinogen.

Sample products containing C15-19 ALKANE

Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.

PRODUCT LABEL POSITION
Nivea #4
Dove men care stick clean comfort 50 m #4

Query C15-19 ALKANE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "C15-19 ALKANE"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'functions', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])

The complete snapshot covers 18,583 products. Coverage of each enrichment column is published, both per distinct name and weighted by label occurrence — see the coverage table.

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