The ZDHC MRSL has been a groundbreaking milestone, harmonizing chemical input standards across the global textile and footwear supply chain. Given its widespread adoption and impact, does ZDHC foresee taking a similar leadership role in developing a unified ZDHC Restricted Substances List (RSL) for finished products? Alternatively, could ZDHC consider endorsing or aligning with an industry-wide RSL—drawing from existing frameworks such as OEKO-TEX® Standard 100, bluesign® RSL, AFIRM, or AAFA RSL—to support greater consistency and transparency in finished product compliance across brands and regions?

Have you seen the newly formatted Suppliers Roadmap to Zero? Here we combined content from 5 guidelines into 1 simple user friendly digitalised journey. Providing a clear route for suppliers to follow requirements through input, process and output to ensure implementation of the ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme. We now begin working on developing the brands and formulators Roadmap to Zero digitalisations, and would love to hear your feedback on the suppliers version to help make any improvements. Please let us know your thoughts good or bad.

I would like to ask about the ZDHC MRSL Level 1 ChemCheck process for chemical suppliers or traders. Can they create a ZDHC Gateway account, send their chemical products for third-party testing, and then upload the results to the Gateway in order to generate a ChemCheck report? If there are any specific requirements or limitations for traders (versus manufacturers or formulator companies), I’d appreciate clarification.