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A Peer Review requires a careful checking of the whole procedure of LCA/LCI, including the quality of data, the system boundaries, the assumptions made and whether or not the method used is compatible with the goal of the study. Most importantly, is has to be ex-aminded whether the results and conclusions are in accord with the quality of the data and with the assumptions made. The Peer Review of the European Life Cycle Inventory for Surfactant Production was conducted between April 1994 and March 1995 and was performed according to the SF.TAC Guidelines (A“Code of Practice” 1993). The main recommendation by the Panel was the full publication of the study. The second main recommendation is to make an update of the database in regular intervals. The third recommendation concerns the format of the international energy database, which should be harmonized.
The authors recommend that the procedure proposed by SF.TAC should be considered within the framework of the ISO LCA-standardization process.
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Presented by W. Klöpffer at the ECOSOL Public Forum, Brussels, 23 October 1995; a more detailed version has been published in Tenside, Surfactants, Detergents, see reference [5]
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Klöpffer, W., Sudström, G. & Grießhammer, R. The peer reviewing process — A case study. Int. J. LCA 1, 113–115 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02978657
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