What are the coffee certifications? Coffee Certification Mark and Coffee quality Certification all over the World

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What kinds of coffee certificates do you have? SCA Coffee Diploma six modules, CQI international certification

Tropical rain forest

Protection authentication

Rainforest Alliance

A worldwide non-governmental organization headquartered in New York. The Tropical Rainforest Alliance's mission is to protect ecosystems and its dependent humans and wildlife by changing land use, business practices, and consumer behavior, as well as to preserve biodiversity and provide sustainable development.

Certification is used to ensure that goods purchased by consumers with the logo are produced under socially, economically and ecologically balanced conditions.

Coffee producers must separate coffee production areas from protected areas and impose restrictions on artificial facilities or human behavior to protect rainforests and the ecological environment.

In addition, the care for producers is also very good, ensuring the unity rights of producers and stipulating compliance with the country's minimum wage law. In addition to ensuring a safe and clean working environment, focus on the basic needs of life, such as proper housing and drinking water environment, and so on. The medical equipment needed by producers and their relatives, and the establishment of compulsory education institutions for children are all necessary.

Bird protection

Authentication

Bird Friendly Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

The coffee identified by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Smithsonian Migration Bird Center is helpful to the protection of the earth's environment by protecting rainforests, coffee shade trees, organic certification, water conservation and other ways to protect birds.

Good coffee certification

UTZ certified good inside

UTZ Kapeh: in Mayan it means "Good Coffee" to establish the source of coffee and the way it is produced by setting a standard for a good source of production and responsibility. Produce a good cup of coffee by restricting pesticide use, ensuring a minimum wage, labour protection, continuous farm improvement, and Track and Trace system (Coffee tracking system) regulations.

With a sophisticated online tracking system, UTZ answered two major concerns of the meeting:

1. Where did my coffee come from?

two。 How is it made?

Organic JAS identification

Japanese Agricultural Standards Association

According to the JAS (Japan Agriculture and Forestry Specification Association) Law, which belongs to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, the organic certification of agricultural products needs to be recognized by a third party.

American organic agriculture

Promotion association

Organic authentication

Organic Crop Improvement Association

OCIA's own organic certification for non-profit organizations such as soybeans, wheat, corn, coffee and other cereals also implements the benchmarks set by the NOP (National Organic Program) government agency, the national organic benchmark.

United States Department of Agriculture

Organic authentication

United States Department of Agriculture Organic

The national organic benchmark NOP (National Organic Program) government agency sets the benchmark, according to the certification mark of organic cultivation recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Fair trade

Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO)

International Fair Trade Mark Organization of non-profit legal person.

Fair trade is a trading partner committed to the formation of a just society free from poverty and mutual respect.

Sustained commodity trading at affordable prices provides employment opportunities for small-scale producers such as the third World or people living in rural areas and helps them to be able to operate their own sustainable businesses and improve their lives.

According to the benchmark of IFAT International Fair Trade Alliance:

1. Provide employment opportunities for producers

2. Keep the transparency of your career

3. Committed to improving the qualifications of producers

4. Promote fair trade

5. Pay a fair price to the producer

6. Provide equal work opportunities without gender difference

7. Observe safe and healthy working conditions

8. Protection of children's rights

9. Pay attention to environmental protection "

Peace wind

Peace Winds Japan

This is a Japanese non-governmental organization dedicated to supporting people in pain, poverty and war. PWJ is to support the disaster areas or disputed areas affected by earthquakes or major disasters, in order to protect lives or support the maintenance of basic living, to provide emergency humanitarian relief such as water or food, emergency material distribution, etc., disaster areas or areas after disputes, to support their rehabilitation and development.

Coffee quality

Research institution

Coffee Quality Institute

CQI is a not-for-profit international organization and a related organization of the SCAA American selected Coffee Association.

Its aim is to improve the quality of coffee and enable coffee producers to live a better life.

CQI provides training and technical support to producers and builds the necessary infrastructure to encourage coffee producers to focus more on quality improvement.

CQI is also the only organization in the world that quantifies and standardizes the quality of coffee products, so that producers can know more clearly how their efforts will improve the quality of coffee.

Because of its independence, CQI has developed an internationally recognized and credible system to evaluate the quality of coffee. This system enables the production side and the user side to have a common language, so that the two sides can start a dialogue and improve the quality of coffee through constant correction.

Sirado, Brazil

Producer association

Appellation Cerrado (CACCER)

The Appellatiton Cerrado certification mark issued by CACCER (Brazilian Syrador producers Association) is Cerrado Coffee based on the certification of production and quality in the recognized areas of the Cerrado region.

For producers, they must meet the specified project conditions (including the identified area, the elevation of the place of production, the approved varieties, the most appropriate land concessions, the most appropriate agricultural technology, and the obligation to participate in the guarantee program). Only after passing the above conditions can the designated certified farm be marked with the logo of the CACCER certified farm. The relevant quality needs to be in line with the SCAA evaluation method of more than 75 cup aroma evaluation.

The quality assurance is established by logistics bar code, and the goods marked with manufacturing experience are exported by CACCER. And signed an agreement with SCAA in 2003 to identify the "taste" of coffee on the basis of SCAA. The evaluation of fragrance, which was not valued before, is one of the important elements.

Each batch of identification is held in Cearrado Coffee Research Institute, and CACCER issues the certificate of identification and the certificate of quality assurance of origin (Appellation Cerrado certificate) in accordance with the regulations of SCAA.

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