Is it normal to get negative human toxicity cancer results?

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Hello,

When using the EF methods 3.0 (adapted) to calculate the environmental impact of the ecoinvent 3.7.1 process "fibre production, cotton, organic, ginning | cottonseed, organic | Cutoff, U", I get a negative result for the human toxicity cancer category. Is it possible or is there a mistake?

Many thanks

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human toxicity

asked Feb 3, 2022 in openLCA by sagets (850 points)

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answered Feb 7, 2022 by Bernhard (2.6k points)

Probably due to the uptake of heavy metals from the crops

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