Insights

If you've worked at the intersection of Life Cycle Assessment and chemical Risk Assessment, you've probably heard this debate: 👉 LCA practitioners think RA misses the bigger picture : cumulative effects of thousands of chemicals and long-term low-dose impacts that single-substance assessment cannot capture. 👉 Risk assessors argue USEtox scores have no proven link to actual human & ecosystem harm—and that only substance-by-substance RA can truly protect human health and the environment.