Digital Product Passports
Supporting Verifiable Product Records with Physical Evidence
Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are becoming an important mechanism for transparency, compliance, and accountability across global supply chains. They provide a structured way to organize and communicate product information across suppliers, markets, and regulators.
GenuTrace supports Digital Product Passports by providing independent, fiber-level physical verification based on isotope analysis that can be referenced within DPP frameworks — helping ensure digital product records are supported by evidence from the material itself.
Why Physical Verification Matters for Digital Product Passports
Digital Product Passports rely on inputs such as supplier records, certifications, and transactional documentation. While essential, these inputs may not always capture upstream events such as:
Undisclosed blending
Substituted sourcing regions
Changes that occur before materials reach declared suppliers
Without physical verification, Digital Product Passports risk reflecting what was reported — rather than what actually occurred.
GenuTrace’s Role in Digital Product Passport Ecosystems
GenuTrace provides cotton isotope testing, a scientific method that verifies
geographic origin based on naturally occurring isotopic signatures in the fiber.
This testing generates independent, third-party evidence that can be:
Referenced within Digital Product Passports
Used to validate cotton origin claims
Applied as part of compliance, audit, or risk-management programs
GenuTrace works alongside Digital Product Passport providers, including our collaboration with Kinset, to help connect physical verification results with digital product records — without replacing or duplicating DPP platforms.
Collaboration with Kinset
To help organizations better understand how physical verification and Digital Product Passports work together, GenuTrace collaborated with Kinset on an educational video and companion article titled:
Genuine Cotton Traceability: Proving Cotton Origin with Physical and Digital Verification
These materials outline how fiber-level testing can complement DPP frameworks and support more credible, evidence-based cotton origin claims.
What This Enables
By incorporating physical verification into Digital Product Passport initiatives, organizations can:
Strengthen origin claims with material-based evidence
Increase confidence in DPP data
Support regulatory and retailer expectations
Identify sourcing risks earlier
Reduce exposure to customs delays, penalties, and tariffs
This approach is particularly relevant for cotton, apparel, and home textiles under heightened regulatory scrutiny.
Genuine Traceability Requires Evidence
At GenuTrace, Genuine Traceability means proof lives in the product itself — supported by transparent, connected data.
Digital Product Passports play a critical role in organizing and communicating supply-chain information. Physical verification helps ensure those records are grounded in material reality.
As expectations rise, traceability will increasingly depend on one question: