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Tuesday, March 24, 2026 EcoCalc chemical data ecotoxicity Safe and Sustainable by Design SSbD EU Ecolabel AFNOR Spec 2215 formulation eco-design green chemistry
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Tuesday, December 30, 2025 PAF USEtox ecotoxicity aquatic toxicity assessment
Secondary keywords: species sensitivity distribution CTUe ecosystem impact metrics comparative ecotoxicity PAF interpretation in LCA potentially affected fraction confusion USEtox ecotoxicity limitations
This short article concerns the interpretation of the USEtox unit used for the aquatic toxicity impact category used in LCA/PEF. A follow up article will address the use of DALY for the human impact assessment category.
Monday, December 22, 2025 Keywords: USEtox EUSES Life Cycle Assessment Risk Assessment REACH Ecotoxicity SimpleBox Safe and Sustainable by Design SSbD Characterization Factor PNEC PEC
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.