Building trust into every Digital Product Passport with Intertek service offerings
Digital Product Passports are set to change how product information is created, verified, shared and accessed across the value chain.
Introduced through the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the DPP is a digital record connected to a product through a data carrier and designed to make relevant product information accessible to different stakeholders. Under the ESPR framework, DPP data will need to be accurate, complete and up to date, with product-specific requirements defined through upcoming delegated acts.
For businesses, preparing for DPP means a lot more than just generating a QR code. It means bringing together product data, compliance evidence, sustainability information and supply-chain traceability in structured, interoperable and reliable digital formats with semantic references linking DPP data to the relevant entities.
Intertek helps businesses move from understanding DPP requirements to building the trusted data, evidence and digital connections needed to implement them.
What is a Digital Product Passport?
A Digital Product Passport is a digital set of product-specific information accessible electronically through a data carrier.
Depending on the requirements established for each product group, a DPP may contain information relating to product identity, manufacturers and facilities, compliance documentation, materials, environmental performance and other relevant product information. ESPR also provides for different access rights depending on the stakeholder and type of information.
The underlying principle is simple - The physical product is connected to the trusted digital information that can follow it through its lifecycle. ESPR requires DPP information to use open standards and interoperable formats and, where appropriate, to be machine-readable, structured, searchable and transferable without vendor lock-in.
Intertek Digital Product Passport Solutions
Intertek brings together advisory, training, testing and assurance, traceability and digital capabilities to help businesses prepare for and implement Digital Product Passports.
1. DPP Readiness & Advisory
Understand applicable and emerging requirements, assess your current product data, systems and supplier readiness, identify gaps and develop a practical DPP implementation roadmap.
2. Training & Regulatory Intelligence
Build DPP capability across internal teams and suppliers and stay informed as regulations, standards and technical requirements continue to evolve.
3. Testing & Assurance
Generate and verify trusted product evidence across areas including robustness and durability, recyclability, recycled content, substances of concern and environmental performance.
4. Traceability
Build visibility across multiple tiers of the supply chain, collect supplier and production information and connect product data with the evidence supporting it.
5. DPP Enablement
Bring relevant information together, structure DPP-ready data and connect it to digital passports, data carriers, client systems and relevant digital infrastructure.
Why Intertek?
Intertek brings together extensive expertise in regulatory compliance, testing, assurance, sustainability and supply-chain traceability to help businesses prepare for Digital Product Passports.
Our experts support customers across the DPP journey, from understanding evolving ESPR requirements and assessing readiness to generating and verifying trusted product data, strengthening traceability and enabling digital passports. Intertek’s involvement in CIRPASS – 2 Expert working groups also keeps us closely connected to the evolving DPP landscape and its practical implications for businesses.
Digital Product Passports for Textiles and Apparel
Textiles and apparel are among the priority product groups being addressed under the ESPR framework. The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) is undertaking preparatory work to support the development of potential ecodesign and DPP requirements for textile products through its delegated act.
While final textile-specific requirements are still being developed, the direction is increasingly clear: businesses will need stronger, more structured and evidence-backed product information.
Areas being explored include product durability and robustness, recyclability, recycled content and environmental performance, alongside the wider ESPR requirements relating to substances of concern and product information.
For textile and apparel businesses, DPP readiness goes beyond creating a digital passport. It requires reliable product data, traceable supporting evidence, substantiated claims, and suppliers and systems capable of managing this information at scale.
From Product Data to Trusted DPP Data
A Digital Product Passport can bring together information from many different sources like internal product systems, suppliers, laboratories, certifications, audits, traceability systems and environmental assessments.
But having the data is not the same as being able to trust it.
Intertek can help businesses distinguish between declared, documented, tested, certified and independently verified information, creating stronger evidence behind the data ultimately used within a Digital Product Passport. Because a trusted DPP starts with trusted data.
Digital Traceability with Trace For Good
Supply-chain traceability is an important part of building reliable product information.
Intertek works with Trace For Good to support digital traceability, including configurable traceability models, multi-tier supplier data collection, evidence linkage and monitoring of supply-chain information.
This capability can help connect materials, suppliers, production processes and supporting documentation as part of the wider DPP journey.
Start Your DPP Readiness Journey
You do not need to wait for every product-specific requirement to be finalised before beginning to prepare.
Businesses can start by understanding their current position by identifying relevant product information, mapping where data and evidence reside, assessing supplier and system readiness, and identifying where additional testing, verification or traceability may be needed.
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Traceability and Digital Passport Solutions
Digital Product Passports are transforming supply chain transparency and sustainability, driven by global regulations. Intertek provides comprehensive DPP solutions to help businesses achieve compliance and meet consumer expectations.
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Trace For Good’s supply chain traceability and data management platform combined with Intertek global network of experts and ATIC solutions will now enable brands and suppliers to collaborate in real time to “track ,trace and verify the impact of each product, gain product sustainability information”.
Whitepaper: Digital Product Passports for Sustainability, Traceability and Transparency in Apparel and Toys Industries
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Demystifying Digital Product Passports: From ESPR Requirements to DPP Readiness
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is revolutionizing compliance through digitization, with eFiling serving as a major initiative to modernize how compliance data is submitted. Starting July 2026, eFiling will become mandatory for products requiring a Children’s Product Certificate (CPC) or a General Certificate of Conformity (GCC). This requirement will also apply to products exported from around the world to the U.S. For brands, manufacturers, and exporters, world over, the countdown to compliance has begun.
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