Folic acid
Hazard
-
P
-
B
-
T
-
Risk
Exempt
Information
Fass environmental information
Fass environmental information for Cernevit (including folic acid) from Baxter (downloaded 2019-05-08).
Risk
The use of vitamins is not considered to have any environmental impact.
Detailed environmental information
According to the European Medicines Agency guideline on environmental risk assessments for pharmaceuticals (EMA/CMP/SWP/4447/00) vitamins, electrolytes, amino acids, peptides, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, vaccines and herbal medicinal products are exempted because they are unlikely to result in significant risk to the environment.
References
Author: The Pharmaceutical unit of Region Stockholm