20.500.12556/DKUM-95515 Method review for assessing damage to human health in LCA implementation in the production of selected food products Agriculture and food production can cause a variety of adverse environmental impacts. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the only standardised method so far that provides a comprehensive assessment of the environmental burden of products. LCA results can be expressed as environmental impacts (midpoint level) or environmental damage (endpoint level). Communication on environmental impact is mostly carried out as a part of the Carbon Footprint (CF) or Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), while reporting on environmental damage is rarely used. Due to the growing interest of consumers in ‘healthy’ food, it is important that food producers address the environmental damage. Therefore, an overview of existing Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) methods that provide insight into endpoint indicators describing damage to human health has been performed and presented in this paper. The application of the selected LCIA methods is demonstrated for the case of food products, highlighting the fact that the results obtained by different LCIA methods are not directly comparable due to a variety of methodological limitations, such as the existence of different environmental indicators and their structure. Finally, the usage of the LCA method for designing food products is presented, with the aim of enabling consumers to choose diets with lower environment and human health impacts. sustainable food consumption eco-conscious choices life cycle assessment environmental impact human health true false true Angleški jezik Angleški jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-09-23 16:22:42 2025-09-23 16:22:42 2025-09-24 03:21:47 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 1-17 issue 1, spec. iss., [art. no.] 4825 Vol. 17 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 2025-05-22 2025-05-25 504.06 250084099 10.3390/su17114825 2071-1050 https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/11/4825 1 c4829026-9888-11f0-8a3e-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=199065 RAZ_Denac_Matjaz_2025.pdf RAZ_Denac_Matjaz_2025.pdf 1 BB2E9F139765F7D8E513CA5AE1FD0BA4 7cb05a3cad1de6f92288166bcdb52c8df1a06b4d1c43d51a8bcbadaeb0909293 e626b91e-9888-11f0-8a3e-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=199066 Ekonomsko-poslovna fakulteta 0 0 0