Estimating chemical ecotoxicity in EU ecolabel and in EU product environmental footprint.
Environ Int
; 118: 44-47, 2018 09.
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ABSTRACT
The EU Commission Ecolabel and the Product and Environmental Footprint (PEF) aim at promoting the development and consumption of greener products. The product aquatic toxicity score from these 2 methods may lead in some circumstances to opposite conclusions. Although this could be interpreted as an inconsistency, the score should not be compared to each other but used in a complementary way. In short, CDV provided a "full" product formula aquatic toxicity score, even if some chemicals may never reach or persist in freshwater ecosystems. The USEtox® score, by integrating fate and exposure, focuses on the potential toxicity of persistent-water-soluble chemicals at steady state. Since no risk or safety assessment can be conducted with USEtox® nor with the CDV, both are a hazard-based scoring system. This short communication clarifies the difference between approaches underpinning the toxicity scores used in Ecolabel and PEF, providing guidance on how to interpret the results.
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Assunto principal:
Poluentes Químicos da Água
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Monitoramento Ambiental
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Medição de Risco
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Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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En
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Environ Int
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2018
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Article