Corionic gonadotrophin
Summary
Hazard - P - B - T - Risk See below
Fass environmental information
Fass environmental information for Pregnyl (corionic gonadotrophin) from MSD (downloaded 2019-08-19).
Risk
Corionic gonadotrophin (human urine): The use of amino acids, proteins and peptides is not expected to have any 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.
Even though biomolecules, such as vaccines and hormones, are exempted they should still be regarded as biologically active.
References
Author: Health and Medical Care Administration, Region Stockholm