Buserelin
Summary
Hazard - P - B - T - Risk See below
Fass environmental information
Fass environmental information for Suprecur (buserelin) from Sanofi AB (downloaded 2020-02-21).
Risk
The use of amino acids, proteins and peptides is not expected to have any environmental impact.
Detailed information
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.
However, even though biomolecules, such hormones, are exempted they should still be regarded as biologically active.
References
Author: Health and Medical Care Administration, Region Stockholm