Timelines for New Rainforest Alliance Seal Use on Coffee, Tea, Banana, Hazelnut, Flower, Fruit, Juice, Palm & Coconut Oil and Herbs & Spices Products
By late April/beginning of May, all our partner companies will receive the Rainforest Alliance’s new certification seal for product packaging, along with (technical) guidance and support documents. The new seal will replace the current Rainforest Alliance Certified™ seal and the UTZ label. Here’s a time line for implementation.
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Mutual Recognition Program
From July 1 2020, the Rainforest Alliance will expand full mutual recognition to coffee, vanilla and herbal infusions (including rooibos), adding to the cocoa, tea and hazelnut mutual recognition launched in July 2019. This means that companies at the end of the supply chain for these crops will be able to source Rainforest Alliance Certified™ […]
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German Retailers Committed to Achieving Living Income and Living Wage for Farmers and Workers
Seven German retailers, Aldi Nord, Aldi Sud, Lidl, dm, REWE, Kaufland, and Tegut set themselves the goal to work towards providing a living income and living wage for farmers and workers in their supply chains.
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January 2020 Update for UTZ Code of Conduct Certification Bodies in Indonesia
Following up on the CB training in Jember from November 26-29, we would like to ask for your attention on the following 5 topics for auditing the UTZ Code of Conduct: New GMR format for cocoa and tea groups GeoValidatorTool for cocoa and tea groups Receiving GMR two weeks before audit Protection of nature Decertification […]
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January 2020 Update for UTZ Code of Conduct cocoa and tea groups in Indonesia
Following communications of last year on the UTZ Code of Conduct, you are now required to provide GPS coordinates of your group members through the Group Member Registry. In addition, we would like to ask for your attention on the following four topics: New GMR format for cocoa and tea groups GeoValidatorTool for cocoa and […]
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