Cotton Origin Verification Testing

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Cotton Origin Verification Testing

Eurofins Cotton origin testing service helps the textile industry to verify the origin of cotton used in the manufacturing process through a combination of analytical techniques that includes Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis (SIRA) technology.

Growing cotton plants naturally absorb chemicals from their environment through the soil, air and precipitations. The precise combination and ratio of chemical elements and their isotopes in a cotton plant is therefore affected by location, temperature, weather patterns, water source and altitude. This gives cotton plants a unique environmental chemical signature specific to the region they were grown in.

Eurofins' sustainable chemistry experts can analyse cotton environmental signatures and use them as an origin verification tool.

Wide scope of cotton material testing

Eurofins cotton origin traceability testing can be offered on raw, processed and dyed cotton samples. The results of the isotope analysis can control if a sample is consistent with our global, geographical cotton database. In most cases down to country and regional level.

Eurofins cotton origin testing can analyse raw, processed, blended and dyed pure cotton samples, as well as blends of cotton with synthetic materials such as polyester and acrylic.

We can verify the geographic origin of your samples down to the country and, in most cases, regional levels.

Cotton verification testing process

We use a combination of analytical techniques, including the Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis (SIRA) of oxygen, hydrogen and carbon, to form an environmental “signature” of our client’s sample. The sample’s environmental signature is then compared to that of cotton of known origin in our dynamic reference database.

If the signatures are consistent with each other, then the product sample passes, and its claimed origin is verified.

Benefits of Eurofins sustainable cotton verification services

Cost-effective with quick turnaround times
Wide scope of sample types from any point in the supply chain
Service-leading global chemistry team
Responsive support and advice from our subject matter experts
Complimentary upstream and downstream services to verify, map and cleanse your supply chain

Why choose the Eurofins Softlines & Leather network of laboratories?

With our global coverage of laboratories and expertise in textile sustainability testing, we help the textile and apparel industry amidst the mounting regulations towards sustainability and compliance.