AUTHENTICATION

OF ORIGIN OF NATURAL FIBER IN FINISHED

PRODUCT

By:
ASHISH TRIPATHI
MFM-III
NIFT, Mumbai 1
 PROBLEM

The main problem tackled in the

study is that of garment
counterfeiting.
For example: Suppose a company
claims that it is using American
cotton. Then what is the proof
that the cotton used in the
garment is American.

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 OBJECTIVE

To look out for ways to clearly

identify the methods through
which we can track the cotton
from field to finished garment.

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 METHODOLOGY
IDENTIFICATION OF PROBLEM

SECONDARY RESEARCH WITH RESPECT TO THE

PROBLEM MENTIONED

SPEAKING TO TESTING AGENCIES

SPEAKING TO AGENCIES GIVING LICENSES FOR FABRIC

USED

MORE DETAILED RESEARCH

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THREE VEHICLES FOR A SAFER RIDE
(methods)

RFID

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RFID

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 WHAT IS RFID

Applied on a For the

Use of a Tag product, purpose of
animal or identification
person & tracking

With the help

of radio waves

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HOW RFID IS APPLIED IN MANUFACTURING

Production Standardization section, Stock-room

preparation of
fabric for ready use,
labelling the fabric with
RFID tag

Transportation RFID pike

of fabrics monitors fabric
release

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Delivery of Acceptance of Wholesale
fabrics to a fabrics at RFID stock-room
wholesaler pike

Transportation Release
of fabrics at
RFID pike

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 CLOSE TO AUTHENTICATION

• Close only to the extent if we have to start from the

manufacturing process

• Keeps an automatic track record of how the product or the

fabric has been moved

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 NOT SUITABLE FOR NATIVE
AUTHENTCATION
Inaccessibility of
RFID in the field of
the raw material.`

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REASONS

RFID tags cannot Human

even withstand the intervention
harsh treatments
of garment
manufacturing
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GLOBAL FLOW OF GARMENT
MANUFACTURING (A CYCLE)

Track & Trace keeps a record of the such cycle

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 HOW DO THEY DO IT?
FEILD MANUFACTURING BRANDS

MADE-BY CUSTOMER
DATABASE

INTERNET

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TOOLS USED
MADE –BY Button
on the garment

Unique code on the garment for the

tracking which is then entered on
internet in order to track the garment

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 EXAMPLE OF M’BRAZER

MANUFACTURER
BRAND
COTTON FEILD

FARMER
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 CLOSE TO 100% NATIVE AUTHENTICATION
Close track of
Less amount of movement of
human raw material
intervention from field to
than RFID finished
product

Is successfully
Easy
tracking the
accessibility to
chain of
the customers
Organic Cotton

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 BUT!

• As per the MADE-BY itself, the method

is not 100% full proof

• The main factor is the entry of data

from the side of the stakeholders
– As we can very well understand that the
cotton farmer in India have many a things on
his mind than entering data on the system
– Plus computer literacy also plays a important
role

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 THE DNA
REVOLUTION
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TWO PLATFORMS

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SigNature® DNA are unique, botanically
derived markers or “tags” that cannot be
copied and due to their enormous
variability, provide forensic proof of
identity for brand protection.

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CREATION AND ENCAPSULATION OF A
SPECIFIC ENCRYPTED DNA SEGMENT
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Large Botanical
DNA is acquired

DNA is segmented

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Segments are shuffled
and reassembled to
form a unique, secure
Signature DNA
markers. These are
recorded and saved in
database

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 WHERE ARE THEY APPLIED

• SigNature DNA has been tried and tested in the following

materials, but not limited only to these materials
– Inks (including intaglio, offset, UV),
– Toners,
– Varnishes,
– Adhesives,
– Paints,
– Polymers,
– Laminates,
– Cyanoacrylates and
– Textile treatments

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HOW IS IT DETECTED

Trough easy to use

hand held devices

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 WHY SigNnature DNA
Every code
Can withstand
developed for Tracks cotton
the harsh fabric
the from field to
treatment and
product/brand finished
last long after
is unique in product
several washing
nature
Recently APDN has
successfully marked
500,000 bales of
raw. The marker
were detected at all
the steps of
manufacturing

Has been tried Uses the

1 in a trillion and accurately nature’s
chance to be tested. The blueprint DNA,
copied results were unique to each
positive animal & plant

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 Applied DNA Sciences was the first to
develop proprietary genetic-based
assays and protocols to identify DNA
markers endogenous (internal) to a
particular product in order to
differentiate between biological strains –
BioMaterial™ Genotyping.

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 HOW DOES IT WORKS

ENDOGENOUS
RAW COTTON
DNA MARKER GARMENT LAB TESTING

QUALITY
APPROVED

NATIVE
NATION
IDENTIFIED
AUTHENTICATED

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 WHY BioMaterial GENOTYPING
Can withstand
the harsh fabric Tracks cotton
treatment and from field to
last long after finished
several washing product

Uses the
nature’s
1 in a trillion Has been tried blueprint DNA,
chance to be and accurately unique to each
copied tested Supima animal & plant

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DNA METHODS CAN BE COMBINED
In the above mentioned technologies one is a
marker to read and identify, the other is a way to
clearly distinguish the native of the natural
material. What if both of these are combined to
make a single platform to attack the menace of
counterfeiting? What if APDN develops a system
wherein just by identifying the marker one can
clearly come to know about the origin of the
natural content used in the product?
Although the above suggestion is merely personal,
but as per the study goes there has to have a
single platform in order to both identify the
authenticity on the place with the place of origin
also.

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 CONCLUSION

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THANK YOU!

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