Buserelin

Fass environmental information

Fass environmental information for Suprecur (buserelin) from Sanofi AB (downloaded 2020-02-21).

Risk

The use of amino acids, proteins and peptides is not expected to have any environmental impact.

Detailed information

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.

However, even though biomolecules, such hormones, are exempted they should still be regarded as biologically active.