About this site

This page contains information about:

Background

Created by

Credits

Disclaimer

References to the database

 

Background

The present database is a result of the project "Lifecycle Assessment of Basic Food" (2000 to 2003) by:

Faculty of Agricultural Sciences

Danish Institute for Fisheries Research

Højmarkslaboratoriet

Danish Research Institute of Food Economics

Danish Technological Institute and

2.-0 LCA Consultants

 

The site is hosted by Faculty of Agricultural Sciences.

Data are also available in the LCA tool SimaPro. Click here to see how to access data in SimaPro.

Text in process data sheets is arranged with bookmarks following the nomenclature of ISO/DTS 14048 and data can be exported automatically to databases applying the ISO format.

The LCAfood database is created by:

Per H. Nielsen, Ph.D.

Anne Merete Nielsen, M.Sc.
Bo P. Weidema, Ph.D.

2.-0 LCA Consultants 

and

Rikke H. Frederiksen, M.Sc.
Randi Dalgaard, Ph.D.student
Niels Halberg, Ph.D.

Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
 

Credits

The authors are grateful to all industries and public organizations, which supported with data and dialog on production processes and market situations, among these are:

The Directorate for Food, Fisheries and Agri Business under the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries who financed the study.

Inger Larsen and Jørgen D. Jensen, Danish Research Institute of Food Economics who supplied the representative data in the farm typology and supported with market analysis related to agricultural products.

Erik Olesen and Heidi Andersen,Højmarkslaboratoriet who delivered data on ice production, sand eel fishing, trout feed production, trout farming and trout slaughtering and supported with market analysis related farmed trout.

Mikkel Thrane, Aalborg University
who delivered data on fishery except sand eel fishing.


Disclaimer

Data presented at the present site is a first release based on new methodologies and it cannot be warranted that data do not contain inaccuracies or errors.

References to the database

Data can be exported from the present database and used for free, provided that proper reference to the source is given.

Please use the following expression when referring to the LCA food database as a whole: Nielsen PH, Nielsen AM, Weidema BP, Dalgaard R and Halberg N (2003). LCA food data base. www.lcafood.dk.

Please refer to specific authors when referring to specific process data sheets, see administrative information at the bottom of each data sheet.