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GLOBAL ORGANIC TEXTILE STANDARD
ECOLOGY & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services, Inc.

Approved Certification Body

Address

31 Kingsland Grange, Woolston, Warrington, WA1 4RW United Kingdom

Approved Scopes: 1, 2, 3, 4
Accredited by: ANAB

Contact

David Croft

Countries of operation

Authentication method(s) for GOTS certificates

There have been cases of invalid certificates which have been faked or manipulated. Below you’ll find one or more methods to authenticate a GOTS certificate at hand. Should you not be able to obtain confirmation of the certificate’s authenticity, please inform GOTS () and the certification body about this. We’ll get back to you.

Email address

You may send the GOTS certificate to be authenticated to the following email address and should have a response about the authenticity of the certificate within two business days of the certification body.
Cryptographic signing certificate
All GOTS certificates must be digitally signed using a cryptographic certificate. Your PDF viewer application should allow you to inspect the signature. There you would find the holder of the certificate which you should be able to find in the list below – one entry per certificate, each giving the cryptographic certificate’s period of validity, its holder, and the name of its issuing certificate authority.

Cryptographic signing certificate can be used for authentication of GOTS Scope and Transaction Certificates: certificate authority " GlobalSign GCC R6 AATL CA 2020".  The company name of the holder of the signing certificate is "Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services Vietnam Ltd."