Calcium chloride

Summary

Risk. The use of electrolytes is not considered to have any environmental impact.

According to the European Medicines Agency guideline on environmental risk assessments for pharmaceuticals (EMA/CHMP/SWP/4447/00 Rev.1), 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 summary information on calcium chloride is based on information available on Fass.se for Clinimix (solution for parenteral nutrition, combinations), marketed by Baxter Medical.