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 [...]
By Textile Insights | May 13, 2024 A recent study has revealed that traces of banned Chinese cotton were found in 19 percent of garment and other merchandise samples selling at US stores in the past year. The study highlighted challenges of complying with the US law aimed at blocking imports of cotton linked [...]
From Xinjiang cotton being found in the US to Turkmenistan’s alleged forced labour harvest tainting its supply chain, the ethics of the global cotton industry are in the spotlight once again. The bombshell CertainT isotope testing report that found almost a fifth (19%) of US cotton samples had Xinjiang origin as recently [...]
The “CertainT® Market Insight 2023-2024 Report: Xinjiang Cotton Circumventing UFLPA” provides the findings of a market study conducted between February 2023 through March 2024 that reveal 19% of all samples tested showed evidence of Xinjiang cotton. The report was prepared independently by Applied DNA Sciences and Stratum Reservoir. Key findings from the CertainT Report reveal [...]
STONY BROOK - CHAMPAIGN - DNA and isotopic testing has revealed that 19% of all textile-based products tested contained cotton from the Xinjiang region of China which is banned in the US over forced labour concerns. Molecular technologies specialist Applied DNA Sciences (ADNAS) and Isotech Laboratories, part of the Stratum Reservoir group, tested 822 [...]