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We’re excited to share the November 2025 edition of the Source Certain newsletter with you. Click the link below to read all the latest news from our company. Read the…

Source Certain traces minerals back to the exact point where they were extracted from the Earth – a technique that could help make cleantech supply chains more accountable. “Whether it…

Timber is central to global trade, construction, and consumer goods, but its supply chains are some of the most vulnerable to fraud. Paperwork can be forged. Shipments can be mixed…

Global demand for chocolate is rising, and with it pressure on cocoa producers to meet bold sustainability targets. Major brands have pledged 100 percent sustainable cocoa, zero deforestation, and full…

Illegal and unregulated fishing undermines marine ecosystems, drives species decline, and costs the global economy billions each year. Yet despite decades of reform, seafood supply chains remain opaque. The industry…

Huge volumes of timber imported into Australia could be (unknowingly) illegal or ‘conflict’ timber, with a new report published by Australia’s Department of Agriculture under the Freedom of Information Act revealing that…

The premium Australian Bravo apple was at risk of counterfeiting, especially in international markets, due to its high value and restricted production to licensed farms. Source Certain developed a forensic…

Seafood is one of the most traded food commodities in the world, yet one of the hardest to monitor. Despite the growth of certification programs like MSC and ASC, more…

“Australian supply-chain forensics company Source Certain has analysed more than 3,000 wood samples from the British construction sector. Its tests, which identify timber by analysing unique atomic “fingerprints” created by…

The Australian company Source Certain can tell where wood has grown by looking at quirks in its atomic structure. Different growing regions give rise to different isotopes, which are atoms…