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	Soil Association Organic United Kingdom · Tier 2 Trusted	India Organic (NPOP) India · Tier 1 Gold	Bio-Siegel (Germany) Germany · Tier 1 Gold	Rainforest Alliance Global · Tier 3 Specialty
What it means	The UK's largest organic certifier. Standards are stricter than the UK government's baseline (which still mirrors EU 2018/848 post-Brexit). Recognised by the EU and USA under equivalence.	India's national organic mark under the National Programme for Organic Production. Administered by APEDA; required on any food exported as organic and increasingly on domestic packaging.	Germany's national organic mark, owned by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Sits alongside the EU Leaf on most German organic packaging since 2001. Same standard as the EU Leaf — Bio-Siegel is the brand consumers recognise.	Sustainable-agriculture certification (post-2020 merged standard with UTZ). Covers environmental, social, and economic criteria. NOT an organic mark.
Scope	Several categories	Food	Food	Food
Established	1946	2001	2001	1987
Inspection	Annual on-site, UKAS-accredited	Annual on-site by APEDA-accredited certifier	Annual on-site by EU-accredited German control body	Annual third-party audit (RA-accredited)
Residue testing	Risk-based	Required for export shipments	Risk-based	Risk-based
Guarantees	Stricter-than-baseline organic standards across food, textiles, cosmetics, and farming. Annual on-site inspection. Animal welfare standards (outdoor access, lower stocking density).	≥95% organic ingredients. No synthetic pesticides, no GMOs. Annual third-party certification.	EU baseline organic (EU 2018/848). Annual on-site inspection by accredited German certifier.	Reduced (not eliminated) synthetic pesticide use, with bans on the most hazardous classes. Forest conservation requirements (no deforestation after the cut-off date). Worker welfare and community development requirements. Annual third-party audit.
Does NOT	Logo is trademarked — not a free-licence mark.	Domestic-only sales can also use FSSAI's 'Jaivik Bharat' mark — if you see only 'Jaivik Bharat' without 'India Organic', the supply chain may be PGS-India rather than NPOP-accredited.	Same standard as the EU Leaf — not stricter.	Allows synthetic pesticides — does NOT meet any organic standard. Often confused with organic but it's a different programme.

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