By Jim Steadman | Beck Barnes

Two years after legislation banned imports into the U.S. containing cotton from China’s Xinjiang region, a recent report shows it’s still slipping through in multiple products.

Bob Antoshak of Gherzi Textil Organization and MeiLin Wan of Applied DNA Sciences join the podcast to discuss why and steps needed to tighten import monitoring.

As discussed on the podcast, the ”CertainT Market Insight 2023-2024 Report: Xinjiang Cotton Circumventing UFLPA” provides the findings of Applied DNA Sciences and Stratum Reservoir’s recently published market study. The findings revealed that a shocking 19% of all samples tested showed evidence of Xinjiang cotton.