Thursday, September 26, 2019

New GFLI entity to make environmental data on feed ingredients publicly available

Recognising that animal feed is a critical component in measuring the total environmental footprint of animal nutrition products, an international consortium came together in 2016 to establish a 'global gold standard' for calculating the life-cycle analysis (LCA) of feed ingredients.

Now, the founding partners of the Global Feed LCA Institute (GFLI) are establishing a legal non-profit institute, under the same name, to expand its work and make the data more widely available to stakeholders throughout the global food value chain.
 

An international consortium of feed industry partners came together Sept. 19 to establish the Global Feed LCA Institute, which will provide greater access to environmental data on feed ingredients so stakeholders can improve their accuracy for reporting the environmental impacts of sustainable animal protein production.
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'Having access to reliable and scientific environmental data on feed ingredients is important for companies, academia and others working on sustainable animal protein production for not only improving the accuracy of their environmental reporting, but also for benchmarking and setting future sustainability goals,' the founding GFLI partners said.

The institute's mission will be to make publicly available an expanded regional and sectorial animal nutrition LCA database, consolidating the existing LCA datasets GFLI developed for the European Union, United States and Canada.


Read the full article on the International Aquafeed website, HERE.

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