What does it mean for a food to carry the seal of the Argentine Carbon Neutral Program?

Dairy products began to have the seal of the “Argentine Carbon Neutral Program” (PACN) on their packaging and many consumers are wondering what it is about. The PACN is a private voluntary membership initiative promoted by the Cereal and Commerce Exchanges of Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Chaco, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Rosario and Santa Fe, whose objective is to generate calculation facilitation tools from the Argentine productive sector. and the management of the equivalent carbon per agroindustrial product. Its development is based on a local life cycle analysis applied and validated by sector chains, aligned with international methodologies and standards. In this process, local environmental factors and profiles are identified with the aim of generating carbon footprint calculations adjusted to the local productive reality of different selected products. In the case of dairy products, the PACN developed sectoral manuals for calculating the carbon balance and good environmental ...