Annual sampling verification for food climate ratings
We are seeking a Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) for Function 2 — annual surveillance and sampling in the ESFC EmpCo scheme. The assignment is to verify that Eaternity’s assessment system applies the recognised methodology correctly to real customer outputs.
Applicant pathway; not yet validated or certified. This is a proposed engagement scope. The applicable scheme requirements, methodology recognition and first-cycle prerequisites remain to be agreed with ESFC and the CAB.
The proposed assignment
At least 200 live assessments per year
A risk-based sample drawn independently by the CAB from the live customer population. Check source inputs, recomputation and the rating actually displayed to consumers.
System conformity and changes
Review how the system applies the methodology, its change log and material changes, and the handling and correction of identified non-conformities.
Annual verification statement
Issue the verification statement jointly to ESFC and Eaternity, recording the scope, evidence, findings and limitations. Individual restaurant claims do not each receive a separate certificate.
Current engagement scope: climate ratings for food-service recipes and products under Collective Assurance. The sample concerns distinct live assessments and their consumer-facing use, rather than repeated calculation calls. Water, nutrition, animal welfare and deforestation indicators are outside this request.
Roles: ESFC is the intended commissioning party for Function 2. Eaternity would provide the confidential customer register and evidence access. Contracting, fees, access rights and milestones will be agreed before work starts.
Can your organisation cover this scope?
Please reply to the outreach email, keeping ESFC in copy, with:
An ISO designation alone does not establish that this particular programme and activity fall within a body’s accredited scope.
How the methodology review fits
Function 1 is the one-time methodology assessment against ISO 14067 and the ESFC Rulebook’s eleven review questions. Function 2 can be quoted separately. The required Function 1 assessment or recognition still needs to support the surveillance engagement; sampling alone does not establish the pathway’s certification.
Assessment status (14 September 2026). Eaternity has engaged Bureau Veritas Solutions Denmark A/S to assess its methodology and rating method, including the annual surveillance and sampling review (Function 1 signed 14 September 2026; Function 2 contracted by ESFC as scheme owner). The engagement runs under ISO 14064-3 against ISO 14067 and the ESFC EmpCo Rulebook. The assessment is under way; the statement will be published when issued and will not be issued under accreditation; no licence under the scheme exists yet. No licence under the ESFC scheme exists yet. Bureau Veritas Solutions Denmark A/S signed its declaration to customers on 15 September 2026: Declaration on the preparation of verification of LCA tool methodology and ratings (PDF). It names the body, ISO 14064-3 as the engagement standard, ISO 14067 as the criterion, the level of assurance and the scope.
Documents for scoping and review
The ESFC scheme-owner portal provides the public pilot Rulebook. For a proposal discussion, we will supply the Eaternity-specific Annex A (pathway registration), Annex B (scoping brief) and ESFC’s short Function 1 / Function 2 overview.
Annex A: Version 1.7.8-draft · the consolidated Annex A/B proposals of 7 September 2026 are with ESFC for review. These shared review documents are the engagement materials; the public technical disclosures below provide supporting evidence.
EDB Changelog →
Published inventory data, modelling basis and release provenance.
This disclosure contains release v1.8.0 (27 August 2026): 1,066 shipped inventories, comprising 690 declared imports plus supply-chain closure. It is a dated reference, not a statement of today’s production deployment. The release under review is v1.11.1 (25 September 2026): 1,031 shipped inventories, 694 declared imports plus closure, listed in shipped-v1.11.1.json.
Regression evidence →
Calculation checks, reproducibility and coverage limitations.
Published validation-environment run of 2 September: 504/600 items computed; 96 curation failures disclosed. The 28 August oracle comparison is a separate production reference. These internal checks are distinct from the CAB’s live sample.
Benchmark and thresholds →
Rating bands, purchasing-data basis and calculation method.
Current best on the 20 August export basis; final recalculation pending. The assessment must pin the benchmark together with the engine, data and functional unit.
Technical context, when needed
System, evidence access and assessment versions
- Declared approach
- Food climate assessment as a partial product carbon footprint, not cradle-to-grave: Eaternity Gastro ratings cover the ingredients from agricultural production up to delivery at the kitchen; Eaternity Score ratings run to the manufacturer’s gate including inbound transport. The consumer phase and end-of-life are excluded, and packaging and kitchen preparation are not modelled as stages of their own in Gastro; covered and excluded stages and the open points still to be confirmed are listed in Annex A, PA-07.4. EF 3.1 climate change with fossil, biogenic and land-use components; A–E climate ratings expressed per Daily Food Unit.
- Calculation system
- EOS combines life-cycle inventories with documented models for incomplete food data. Method implementations and the open UVEK/BAFU-based data programme support independent review; the production platform is proprietary and can be examined by the CAB.
- Evidence package
- The engagement needs a reconciled live population and claim countries, input records, versioned calculation evidence, recomputation access, display evidence, change logs and correction records. Access and current coverage will be demonstrated during scoping; customer information stays confidential.
- Assessment versions
- Engine, inventory release, DFU definition, benchmark, oracle, population and period must be pinned together with the CAB. Published August and September runs concern different versions and environments; they do not select the engagement baseline.
Daily Food Unit — declared 2026 definition
The DFU expresses nutritional function using one WHO/FAO 60 kg / 2,000 kcal reference adult:
DFU = (protein/50 + fat/66 + restkJ/5076 + water/2500 + DW/325) / 5
restkJ = energykJ − 17 × protein − 37 × fat
DW = mass − water − protein − fat
Mass and nutrient quantities are in grams. The derivation and implementation are available in lci-dfu. Scheme adoption remains subject to ESFC’s review.
Declared versus live: the documented August production reference uses the pre-2026 DFU. The proposed cutover places the new DFU, inventory basis and recalculated benchmark after validation; it is not a confirmed deployment date. Results expressed per different DFU definitions are not directly comparable.