Somatropin
Summary
Hazard - P - B - T - Risk Exempt
Fass environmental information
Fass environmental information for somatropin from Ferring, IPSEN, Lilly och Novo Nordisk (downloaded 2019-07-08).
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