Organic, what makes a product organic?

Most of the products in ChufaNederland's range are certified organic. What does this mean?

Recently, non-organic products have been added to the range that, however, look exactly the same but are cheaper. Hence a blog article on the difference and when a product can be called organic.

Most people are familiar with this logo:

This logo may not be used indiscriminately. Requirements: a Skal certificate.

Skal is the body that oversees the use of this logo. How does this work in practice?

Actually, the core of an organic logo is the traceability of the product. You actually want your product to be grown without pesticides with respect for the environment and nature. But how can you be sure of this? The grower must also register with the body that applies to them. This looks at the soil, does tests, looks at records and yields. They have determined that this grower has harvested and certain amount from the right land and gets a certificate for this. In our case, the farmer in Africa.

Our supplier wants to buy this crop and be able to sell it again as organic. This supplier must also be certified and register. First, they need the grower's certificate, to establish the origin as organic. Now they need to show that procedures are in place in terms of storage and entry. Products also go out (sales) and then you get an aggregate:

Purchase - sale = stock

This is called the quadratic equation and must be substantiated with documents such as invoices and packing slips. As you can imagine, one should not sell more organic than purchased, otherwise non-organic is sold as organic and that is a red flag!

Now we are buying from this supplier again and the same conditions apply to us. We have to be able to show the same summation, also supported by documents. Is this correct, along with all other conditions, then we will get our certificate!

Provided we pay the bills, of course 🙂

You can look us up in the register of Skal with the Skal number 103376.

Hopefully, you now have an idea of what such an organic logo means! The core is the control of the whole chain.