Potassium chloride

Summary

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

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Detailed information

Fass environmental information

There are several medicinal products with the same information. Presented here is Fass environmental information for Addex-Potassium Chloride (potassium chloride) from Fresenius Kabi (downloaded 2022-05-18).

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.