PAS 2050-2:2012 PDF

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This Publicly Available Specification (PAS) establishes supplementary requirements for use in conjunction with PAS 2050:2011 for the cradle-to-gate assessment of the GHG emissions from seafood and other aquatic food products derived from both wild capture and aquaculture production. This PAS is appropriate for use by organizations operating in the seafood and other aquatic food product sectors that are intending to undertake a programme of GHG emission reduction of their product life cycle, or those needing to provide information on the GHG emissions from their products or processes to downstream business partners or other stakeholders (e.g. environmental regulators).

This PAS has been developed in accordance with the principles on supplementary requirements as set out in PAS 2050:2011 4.3 and follows the structure and form of that PAS. Due to the specific circumstances of the seafood and other aquatic food products sectors, and the choices left open to practitioners in PAS 2050:2011, this PAS provides clarity on the issues associated with those choices and establishes supplementary requirements, in particular with regard to system boundary, allocation and land use change. It clearly identifies where PAS 2050:2011 requirements are to be applied without supplement, and provides sector-specific requirements and guidance, where permitted by PAS 2050:2011.

The scope of this PAS is limited to the cradle-to-gate stages of the life cycle, which for aquatic food products for human consu...