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 "title": "How Should Product Evidence Travel Downstream?",
 "description": "What should travel with a product fact so a downstream business can reuse, verify or challenge it?",
 "territory": "evid",
 "category": null,
 "direct_answer": "Do not hand off only the value. Preserve enough context to know what the value describes, how it was established, which product, model, batch or item it belongs to, who issued or holds the evidence and whether it is still current.",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-10",
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   "url": "https://ref.gs1.org/standards/epcis/artefacts",
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   "url": "https://untp.unece.org/docs/specification/DigitalTraceabilityEvents/",
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   "url": "https://untp.unece.org/docs/specification/DigitalProductPassport/",
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