Folic acid

Information

Hazard - P - B - T - Risk Exempt

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.