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Hello, 

some impact categories, such as Goods produced by forced labour follow an evaluation schema of only two risk levels: 

0 =  no risk: 

1 = very high risk

However, there are elementary flows for all risk levels available: 

Flow Category Factor Unit Uncertainty Location

Goods produced by forced labour; high risk Social flows/Workers/Forced labour 10.0 GF med risk hours/h none

Goods produced by forced labour; low risk Social flows/Workers/Forced labour 0.1 GF med risk hours/h none

Goods produced by forced labour; medium risk Social flows/Workers/Forced labour 1.0 GF med risk hours/h none

Goods produced by forced labour; no data Social flows/Workers/Forced labour 0.1 GF med risk hours/h none

Goods produced by forced labour; no risk Social flows/Workers/Forced labour 0.0 GF med risk hours/h none

Goods produced by forced labour; very high risk Social flows/Workers/Forced labour 100.0 GF med risk hours/h none

Goods produced by forced labour; very low risk Social flows/Workers/Forced labour 0.01 GF med risk hours/h none

Is there a specific reason why all elementary flows are provided? 

I assume in the processes only high risk and no risk are allocated? 

I am worried that due to the provision of all elementary flows & if these are manually allocated, it could lead to wrong results and misinterpretation of the indicator's result. 

Happy to get some feedback on these thoughts. 

Kind regards, 

Madeleine Pries

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Hi Madeleine,

thank you - yes I agree we should probably remove these unused elementary flows. Good observation.

All the best,

Andreas
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