Do you know what the certification mark on the coffee package means?

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More and more people like to buy a pound or half a pound of domestic and foreign boutique coffee and go home to grind and brew a pot of good coffee to enjoy a good coffee time. However, have you ever noticed that in addition to the beautiful pictures and texts like works of art on the coffee bags you buy, there are sometimes one or two coffee labels on the side and back of the packaging that you often see but do not know what they mean? and why do these coffees need this logo? Today, we will briefly introduce you to various coffee bean certification bodies.

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 earthquake, major disaster affected areas or disputed areas, 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 are self-supporting support for their rehabilitation and development.

Organic JAS recognizes 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.

Good Coffee Certification UTZ certified good inside

UTZ Kapeh: it means "Good Coffee" in Mayan to establish the source of coffee and the way it is produced by setting a standard for good production and resources. 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 answers two major concerns of consumers:

1. Where does my coffee come from?

2, how is it made?

Tropical Rainforest Conservation Certification Rainforest Alliance

A worldwide non-governmental organization headquartered in New York. The mission of the Tropical Rainforest Alliance is to protect ecosystems and its dependent humans and wildlife by changing land use, business behavior, and consumer behavior, and 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 right of unity of producers and stipulating compliance with the minimum wage law established by the country, focusing on the basic needs of life in addition to ensuring a safe and clean working environment, such as proper housing and drinking water environment. The medical equipment needed by producers and their relatives, and the establishment of voluntary education institutions for children are all necessary.

American Association for the Promotion of Organic Agriculture Organic Certification Organic Crop Improvement Association

The private non-profit team of organic certification, soybeans, wheat, corn, coffee and other cereals, the organic certification of OCIA's own benchmark, also implements the benchmark set by the NOP (National Organic Program) government agency, the national organic benchmark.

Coffee Quality Institute, a coffee quality research institution

CQI is a non-profit international organization and a related organization of the SCAA Fine Coffee Association of America. 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. Thanks to the independence of CQI, it 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 corrections.

Appellation Cerrado (CACCER), Brazilian Hiladow producers Association

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

For producers, they must meet the specified project conditions (including the identified area, the elevation of the place of production, approved varieties, the most appropriate soil, 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.

Establish quality assurance in the form of logistics bar code and mark the export of goods with manufacturing experience to 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.

USDA Organic Certification 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).

Bird Protection Certification Bird Friendly Smithsoian 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.

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. Strive to improve the qualification of producers.

4. Promote fair trade

5. Pay a fair price to producers

6. Provide equal work opportunities without gender difference

7. Observe safe and healthy working conditions

8. Guarantee the rights of children

9. Pay attention to environmental protection

The above is a brief introduction to several common certification marks on coffee packaging. I hope it will be helpful to you who love coffee. If you also find some coffee badges that are common to you but don't know where they came from, you are welcome to tell the editor, who would be happy to explain it for you.

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