MeiLin Wan is the Vice President of Textile Sales for Applied DNA Sciences, a U.S.-based cotton DNA authentication company that released a report earlier this year highlighting an alarming percentage of imported cotton textiles and apparel made by forced labor in Xinjiang, China. Hear more about the rise in forced labor behind the apparel [...]
STONY BROOK, N.Y. September 4, 2024 - Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN) (Applied DNA), a leader in PCR-based DNA technologies, today announced the receipt of a subcontract award from LRQA following a competitive tender for a pilot isotopic testing program. Under the terms of the subcontract, Applied DNA, together with its traceability [...]
Applied DNA Sciences has signed a five-year licensing and commercial-based agreement with vertically integrated textile manufacturer Indus Group for the DNA authentication firm's CertainT platform.
By Shemona Safaya Biotechnology company Applied DNA Sciences has signed a five-year licensing and commercial-based agreement with apparel-textile manufacturer and sourcing firm Indus Group for CertainT's first large-scale deployment as a cotton traceability platform. Under the terms of the agreement Applied DNA will supply Indus with its CertainT platform for non-home, cotton-based products (apparel, [...]
STONY BROOK, N.Y. July 25, 2024 - Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN) (“Applied DNA” or the “Company”), a leader in PCR-based DNA technologies, today announced the signing of a five-year license and commercialization agreement for its CertainT® traceability platform (the “Agreement”) with Indus Group (“Indus”) a multinational apparel/textile manufacturing and sourcing company [...]
Posted on May 28, 2024 By Lauren Schenkman About a third of positive-tested items had fibers solely from the banned region, despite U.S. regulations over forced labor concerns. Dive Brief: Cotton from the Xinjiang region of China was found in 19% of 822 cotton-containing products sampled from February 2023 to March 2024, according to a report [...]
MeiLin Wan, vice president of textile for Applied DNA Sciences, joins the Print & Promo Marketing Podcast to discuss a study that revealed cotton sourced from China’s Xinjiang province in 19% of textile products sold in the U.S. and abroad. Many of these fibers were mixed with cotton from other sources, and Wan says [...]
More than 800 items, including apparel and footwear, had fibers from the contested region, despite U.S. bans over forced labor concerns. By Lauren Schenkman Dive Brief: Cotton from the Xinjiang region of China was found in 19% of 822 cotton-containing products sampled from February 2023 to March 2024, according to a report provided to Fashion Dive [...]
By Brendan Menapace It’s been a global effort to minimize or outright ban the usage of cotton sourced from China’s Xinjiang province. Xinjiang is the hub of China’s cotton output, and had traditionally been the source of apparel and other products used around the world. But it’s also the epicenter of what watchdogs and [...]