Editing Standardization (section)

===Product testing and analysis===
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In routine [[product testing]] and [[product analysis]] results can be reported using official or informal standards. It can be done to increase [[consumer protection]], to ensure safety or healthiness or efficiency or performance or sustainability of products. It can be carried out by the manufacturer, an independent laboratory, a government agency, a magazine or others on a voluntary or commissioned/mandated basis.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kleinschmidt |first1=Christian |title=Comparative Consumer Product Testing in Germany |journal=Business History Review |date=2010 |volume=84 |issue=1 |pages=105–124 |doi=10.1017/S0007680500001264 |s2cid=154453481 |language=en |issn=2044-768X}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Plambeck |first1=Erica L.|author1-link=Erica Plambeck |last2=Taylor |first2=Terry A. |title=Testing by Competitors in Enforcement of Product Standards |journal=Management Science |date=1 April 2019 |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=1735–1751 |doi=10.1287/mnsc.2017.3023 |s2cid=10756041 |issn=0025-1909|url=http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/37h1p0b3 }}</ref>{{additional citation needed|date=October 2021}}

Estimating the [[sustainable food system|environmental impacts of food products]] in a standardized way – as has been done with [[Life-cycle assessment#LCA dataset creation|a dataset]] of >57,000 food [[Product (business)|products]] in supermarkets – could e.g. be used to inform consumers or in [[policy]].<ref>{{cite news |title=These are the UK supermarket items with the worst environmental impact |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2332392-these-are-the-uk-supermarket-items-with-the-worst-environmental-impact/ |access-date=14 September 2022 |work=New Scientist}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Clark |first1=Michael |last2=Springmann |first2=Marco |last3=Rayner |first3=Mike |last4=Scarborough |first4=Peter |last5=Hill |first5=Jason |last6=Tilman |first6=David |last7=Macdiarmid |first7=Jennie I. |last8=Fanzo |first8=Jessica |last9=Bandy |first9=Lauren |last10=Harrington |first10=Richard A. |title=Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=16 August 2022 |volume=119 |issue=33 |pages=e2120584119 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2120584119 |pmid=35939701 |pmc=9388151 |bibcode=2022PNAS..11920584C |language=en |issn=0027-8424|doi-access=free}}</ref> For example, such may be useful for approaches using [[personal carbon allowance]]s (or similar quota) or for [[Externality#Scientific calculation of external costs|targeted alteration of (ultimate overall) costs]].