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ZDHC aims to include leather in new audit protocol

22/01/2016
A Lanxess seminar in Cologne in January included a presentation from Frank Michel, executive director of ZDHC, the group that has published a Manufacturing Restricted Substances List (MRSL) for leather. Mr Michel’s talk was part of a broader discussion on restricted substances in the leather supply chain.

He spoke in detail about the work his Amsterdam-based group has done since its foundation in 2011 and about the next steps it intends to take. He revealed that a new ZDHC audit protocol will be one of the milestones it achieves in 2016.

ZDHC has held back from publishing an audit protocol of its own after finding that an existing  protocol put in place by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition came close to what ZDHC wanted to do. This coalition, a group  nearly 200 companies and organisations, including brands, retailers, manufacturers, suppliers, NGOs and academics, has the aim of assessing the environmental and social impacts of apparel, footwear and home textiles.

Frank Michel said his organisation had been able to “harmonise” its idea of what an audit protocol should consist of with the Sustainable Apparel Coalition protocol and said ZDHC will make this protocol public in the course of this year. However, he also said his group is in talks with multi-stakeholder organisation the Leather Working Group (LWG) and will seek to incorporate elements of what takes place at tanneries during LWG audits into the new ZDHC protocol too.


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