Thirty percent of Americans said that they would completely stop purchasing a brand if they made a false product claim about a bedding/clothing product being 100 percent organic, 100 percent Pima cotton, or other claim of this type, while roughly three in five Americans (61 percent) say if they found a brand made their bedding/clothing products from raw cotton that was picked by child laborers /forced laborers, they would no longer purchase the brand.

"This survey reaffirms what we have known all along," said James Hayward, CEO of Applied DNA Sciences, a provider of DNA-based supply chain, anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft technology. "Consumers want authentic products and want to trust in what they are buying. They have no interest in bringing a product into their home that has been born of any kind of forced labor.

Hayward explains the methodology used by his firm, which is to “use the DNA that nature gave that commodity or to mark it with a manufactured DNA enables the cotton to be traced to where it was picked before it went into the ginning process that cleans away seed and other debris for packaging into bails to ship around the world for spinning, dyeing and to make into clothes."

Citing scientific proof of product claims as a key factor in consumer purchase decisions, the survey yielded insights involving product trust and how that trust influences the final decision to purchase or not.

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