Evidence & Trust
How you know a product fact is true and what to do when evidence disagrees.
Every resource on how you know a product fact is true, and what to do when the evidence disagrees.
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- Passport Evidence: How We Know, and What a Blank MeansAn empty field on an ActivateDigital passport is an answer. It means we looked, we did not get to something we were willing to…
- When a Test Contradicts a Supplier DeclarationBelow the tolerance the two values are both correct and there is nothing to resolve.
- What You May Publish When You Do Not KnowThe answer is not no. Two named instruments already contain worked patterns for a stated unknown and both require it bounded and…
- Certificates, Declarations and Test ReportsA folder of PDFs becomes an evidence base only once somebody has said what each document establishes.
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Carbon, Water and Environmental Data in a Textile DPP
No EU instrument requires a textile product to carry a carbon, water or environmental figure today.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
Certificates, Declarations and Test Reports
A folder of PDFs becomes an evidence base only once somebody has said what each document establishes.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
Chemical Data, and Whether It Reaches the Garment
The chemical data a textile business holds is real, well governed and about a different object.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
DPP Proof of Registration: What It Actually Proves
The registry can produce a sealed electronic document saying a named operator registered a named product at a named moment.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
DPP Registry Records: Your Audit Trail and Personal Data
The registry keeps two things. One is a record about a product.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
Durability and Repairability in a Textile DPP
The preparatory work behind a textile act proposes a robustness score built from laboratory tests, and declines in terms to make it…
Sources as at 28 August 2026
EPREL: What a Mandatory EU Product Register Produced
Before deciding what a Digital Product Passport will achieve, it is worth looking at the one Europe already built.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
Getting Evidence Out of Suppliers
One route to a supplier is written into law and it is narrower than almost everybody thinks.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
Passport Evidence: How We Know, and What a Blank Means
An empty field on an ActivateDigital passport is an answer. It means we looked, we did not get to something we were willing to…
Sources as at 28 August 2026
Product QR Code Scan Rates: What the Measurements Show
Four field measurements of consumer scanning now exist with stated populations behind them, and they span roughly three orders of…
Sources as at 28 August 2026
Publishing a Textile Certification for Machines
You hold a certificate. You want a system to be able to find it, read it and tell it apart from a logo on a product page.
Sources as at 30 August 2026
What a Passport Field Can and Cannot Prove
A filled field records that somebody stated something. A claim says something is true of this product, in this market, at this…
Sources as at 28 August 2026
What a Recycler Can Actually Use
A sorting line gets the object, whatever is left of the label and a machine reading of the surface.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
What You May Publish When You Do Not Know
The answer is not no. Two named instruments already contain worked patterns for a stated unknown and both require it bounded and…
Sources as at 28 August 2026
When a Test Contradicts a Supplier Declaration
Below the tolerance the two values are both correct and there is nothing to resolve.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
When the Certification Scheme Behind a Claim Is Replaced
The standards that produce most recycled and responsible material certificates in textiles are being consolidated into one.
Sources as at 30 August 2026
Which Product Facts Can a Small Business Verify Itself?
Separate public, internal, supplier-held and not-reliably-measurable product facts, and understand what each evidence source…
Last verified 2 September 2026
Who Owns a Published Product Fact
The company that placed the product on the market owns every field it publishes, and the accuracy standard sitting on those fields…
Sources as at 28 August 2026