EU Digital Product Passport Detergents

Regulation (EU) 2026/405 makes a Digital Product Passport mandatory for every detergent and end-user surfactant sold in the EU from 23 September 2029, replacing the 22-year-old Detergents Regulation with a record AuthiChain issues the same way it does for batteries and steel.

Why AuthiChain

• The passport has to be registered — under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 — before the product goes on the market, and stay available for 10 years, a longer retention window than most DPP categories decided so far
• A data carrier, typically a QR code, links the physical bottle to the registered passport — the same identifier-to-record pattern this protocol already uses for GS1 Digital Link resolution
• Stock placed on the market before 23 September 2029 under the old Regulation (EC) 648/2004 keeps selling with no time limit if unchanged after that date; a one-year sell-through window applies to stock made in the following year

How it works

Issue a unique identifier per unit, anchor its record on-chain for tamper-evidence, and let anyone verify it with a single scan. Plans start at $49/mo.

FAQ

When is the detergent passport mandatory?

23 September 2029, under Regulation (EU) 2026/405, which entered into force 22 March 2026.

Does the passport replace the ingredient label on the bottle?

No — the regulation keeps existing labelling obligations and adds the passport as a separate, resolvable digital record; nothing currently printed on the bottle goes away.