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European Life Cycle Assessment Platform

The EPLCA is the EU’s knowledge base that responds to business and policy needs towards sustainable production and consumption. It supports the methodological development of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for the analysis of supply chains and end-of-life waste management.

  • Topic / Tool | Last updated: 04 May 2026
Ecotox Explorer

The EF3.1 Ecotox Explorer purpose is to support EF3.1 users to understand how freshwater ecotoxicity CFs have been derived and which underlying data have been used.

Life Cycle Assessment

Here's access to the Ecotox explorer.  By using the Ecotox Explorer, you can:

  • Explore ecotoxicological data and how they have been used, in the Explore data tab;
  • Explore the physico-chemical properties, in the Explore data tab;
  • Compare CFs of more chemicals to observe the causes of the differences, in the Compare chemicals tab;
  • Understand how to correctly interpret the Characterisation Factors (CFs), thanks to the guideline in the Interpretation tab;
  • Find sources and references of documentations, papers, web pages and data to deepen the aspects of the subject, in the About tab

Ecotox explorer

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