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Woolam Gin achieves cotton tagging first

24/08/2017

Texas-based cotton mill Woolam Gin has been awarded the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS v5.0) certification, making it the first certified US gin to use Applied DNA's molecular tagging system to track cotton fibres. SigNature T is a botanical-based DNA marker that is engineered to bond to cotton at a molecular level, creating a permanent...

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