Governance & Policy
Segregated Chain of Custody
A chain-of-custody model in which certified material is kept physically separate from uncertified material throughout the supply chain.
Definition
The segregated model is a chain-of-custody approach used by certification schemes (FSC, RSPO, Fairtrade and others) in which certified material is physically separated from non-certified material at every stage of the supply chain, so that a product sold with a claim contains only certified content — though mixing of certified material from different sources is allowed. It sits between identity preserved (single source) and mass balance (proportional mixing) in the model hierarchy.
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