# ESGPulse Commodity Sustainability Certification Checker

> ESGPulse Commodity Sustainability Certification Checker is a paid API for AI agents from esgpulse.theaslangroupllc.com, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Checks whether a seafood, palm oil, tea, timber, or cotton product is sustainably certified by cross-referencing major certification bodies including Seafood Watch, MSC, RSPO, Ethical Tea Partnership, FSC, and Better Cotton.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://esgpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/esg/commodity
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/esgpulse-commodity-sustainability-certification-checker-4a2ce4a8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Zy2dlJNObxa7kbeeO7gyO

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability esgpulse-commodity-sustainability-certification-checker-4a2ce4a8
```

Example prompt: Can you check whether 'Marks & Spencer Fairtrade Cotton' is sustainably certified — specifically look at Better Cotton and any other relevant certifications, and flag any red flags?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to verify sustainability certification status for specific commodities in the seafood, palm oil, tea, timber, or cotton categories, especially when cross-referencing multiple major certification bodies (MSC, RSPO, FSC, Seafood Watch, ETP, Better Cotton) in a single call. Prefer this over general ESG endpoints when the query is product- or commodity-specific rather than company-level ESG scoring.

## Known failure modes

- Product or brand not found in certification databases — returns no match or unknown status
- Commodity type not supported (e.g. non-covered categories like grains or dairy) — returns out-of-scope error
- Ambiguous product name matching multiple entries — may return multiple candidates or ask for clarification
- Certification data may be outdated if a certification has lapsed recently
- $0.10 USDC payment required per call; payment failure results in 402 error

## How this service works

Certified commodity check — is this seafood, palm oil, tea, timber, or cotton product sustainably certified? Cross-references Seafood Watch, MSC, RSPO, Ethical Tea Partnership, FSC, and Better Cotton certification status with sustainability rating context and red flags.

## Output

Returns certification status (certified/not certified/pending) for the queried commodity or brand across relevant bodies (Seafood Watch, MSC, RSPO, Ethical Tea Partnership, FSC, Better Cotton), a sustainability rating, contextual explanation, and any red flags or concerns about the product's sustainability claims.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | de | fr | es | it | zh | ja | pt"
      },
      "commodity": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "seafood | palm-oil | tea | timber | cotton (required)"
      },
      "product_or_brand": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Bumble Bee Tuna | Lipton | IKEA (required — product or brand name)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "verdict": {
   "rating": "certified-and-clear"
  },
  "commodity": "seafood",
  "product_or_brand": "Example Seafood Co",
  "certification_status": [
   {
    "status": "certified",
    "certifier": "MSC"
   }
  ],
  "sustainability_rating_context": {
   "rating": "Best Choice"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/esgpulse-commodity-sustainability-certification-checker-4a2ce4a8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from esgpulse.theaslangroupllc.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/esgpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/llms.txt)