Product Environmental Information
Product environmental information is intended to support consumers in their purchasing decisions and promote more environmentally friendly production. To this end, Agroscope compiles independent data on important foods which it makes available to the public.
In the ‘Benchmarking and Monitoring of Foods’ project, Agroscope compiles representative benchmarking values for the environmental impacts of important foods that are produced in Switzerland. After a pilot phase it is intended to steadily expand the range of evaluated products. As part of quality assurance in the agriculture and food sector, Agroscope is also involved in producing life cycle inventories for the Product Environmental Footprint database of the European Commission.