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For a smaller group of cotton growers, suppliers and retailers, when third-party standards alone didn’t meet their needs, they teamed up to take traceability into their own hands.

At the New York Market – Farm-to-table meets Intel Inside with Himatsingka’s two new DNA cotton tagging brands.

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (“Applied DNA,” “the Company,” NASDAQ: APDN), today announced that one of their ginning partners, the Woolam Gin in O’Donnell, Texas, was awarded the Global Organic Textile Standard (“GOTS v5.0”) certification, making it the first certified U.S. organic cotton gin utilizing Applied DNA’s molecular tagging system, which provides a single platform to tag, test, and track the organic cotton fibers throughout a certified supply chain.

"There’s a new kind of “short-sheeting,” and instead of a practical joke, this kind is an international crime."

"With a tiny marker on every grain of cotton, Pimacott can keep labels honest. Now if only the rest of the industry would catch up."

"It’s been an open secret among experts in the cotton industry that products often labeled as 100 percent Egyptian or Pima cotton are made in part or entirely of cheaper cotton."

"Not all cotton is of equal quality. In fact many times higher grade cotton products have been laced with inferior fiber."

"Brands understand the confusion prevailing in the definition of Egyptian cotton, and are looking for sources to verify where their cotton is coming from and to get the purest cotton possible in their products."

"Bait-and-switch labeling, inferior products, counterfeit schemes, environmental violations: These devious tactics are rampant in the cotton industry…"

"On the cotton side of the business, the new PimaCott initiative uses DNA technology to mark and track Pima cotton to authenticate its purity from farm to finished product."