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CCS Content Claim Standard
The chain of custody requirements the rest of this family builds on. A voluntary certification standard, not a test method. Compliance is demonstrated by third-party audit of a site and by transaction certificates following the material through the chain, rather than by a laboratory result on a specimen.
- Number
- CCS
- Edition
- CCS 3.0
- Status
- active
What this standard is for
Why it matters
A reader trying to work out how transaction certificates actually move with the goods should start here rather than with any of the material-specific standards, which assume it.
What to watch for
The edition recorded here is inferred rather than stated. The publisher names 3.0 only inside the title of their own brand certification guide, and separately announces a revision producing v3.1, so 3.0 is current on the balance of what the site says - but check the document itself before quoting the version to anyone.
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