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 persistentwater-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.
SAOUTER Erwan;
DE SCHRYVER An;
PANT Rana;
SALA Serenella;
2018-12-10
WILEY-BLACKWELL
JRC107234
0730-7268 (online),
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018304963?via%3Dihub,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC107234,
10.1016/j.envint.2018.05.022 (online),
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