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	Orgánico SAGARPA / SENASICA (Mexico) Mexico · Tier 1 Gold	Fairtrade International Global · Tier 3 Specialty	JAS Organic Japan · Tier 1 Gold
What it means	Mexico's national organic mark, administered by SENASICA under the Ley de Productos Orgánicos (LPO).	Certifies fair prices and conditions for producers in developing countries — not organic, not environmental. Common on coffee, cocoa, sugar, bananas, tea.	Japan's national organic standard under the Japanese Agricultural Standard system. The mark must appear on any food sold as 'organic' (有機 or オーガニック) in Japan.
Scope	Food	Food	Food
Established	2006	1997	2001
Inspection	Annual on-site, SENASICA-accredited	Annual on-site by FLOCERT (independent of Fairtrade International)	Annual on-site by MAFF-registered certifier
Residue testing	Required	Not for organic — Fairtrade alone doesn't test residues	Required for high-risk operations
Guarantees	≥95% organic ingredients per LPO. Annual on-site inspection by SENASICA-accredited certifier.	Minimum price floors for producer cooperatives. Fairtrade Premium paid into community-development funds. Bans on the worst forms of child and forced labour. Producer organisations must be small-farmer cooperatives or hired-labour plantations meeting standards.	≥95% organic ingredients. No synthetic pesticides, no synthetic fertilizers, no GMOs. Annual inspection by a MAFF-registered certifier.
Does NOT	USDA equivalence is granted product-by-product, not blanket.	Doesn't mean organic — many Fairtrade products are conventionally grown. A separate Fairtrade-Organic dual certification exists.	Mutual recognition with the US, EU, and Canada applies to specific product categories — check each agreement before importing.

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