Carbon

Summary

Risk. The use of activated carbon is not considered to pose any environmental risk. Carbon is a naturally occurring element and is not expected to have any adverse environmental impact.

According to the European Medicines Agency guideline on environmental risk assessments for pharmaceuticals (EMA/CHMP/SWP/4447/00), vitamins, electrolytes, amino acids, peptides, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids proteins, vaccines and herbal medicinal products are exempted because they are unlikely to result in significant risk to the environment.

This information on activated carbon is taken from fass.se for Carbo medicinalis from Abcur (accessed 6 July 2026).