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The ARGE BIO Standard

Compliance with the ARGE BIO Standard

LebensmittelFairSicherung has been commissioned by ARGE BIO for the operational implementation, monitoring of compliance and evaluation according to the private-law ARGE BIO Standard.

Verification of requirements for increased safety in organic products (Module 1)
Evaluation based on criteria for enhanced credibility of the actors (Module 2). This includes, among other things, added value expectations placed on organic products that go beyond legal requirements: Climate protection – Food waste reduction – Energy and material consumption – Water management – Fairness – Circular economy and locally organised production systems
Ensuring flawlessness, transparency and truthfulness in product labelling and final packaging
Monitoring specified limits for prohibited substances through external analyses
Examination of supply chains
Conducting on-site audits, especially during the initial production of “ARGE BIO Standard approved” organic products
Limitation on the cultivation of identical products to conversion and recognised areas

More about the ARGE BIO Standard

Compliance with the ARGE BIO Standard

LebensmittelFairSicherung has been commissioned by ARGE BIO for the operational implementation, monitoring of compliance and evaluation according to the private-law ARGE BIO Standard.

Verification of requirements for increased safety in organic products (Module 1)
Evaluation based on criteria for enhanced credibility of the actors (Module 2). This includes, among other things, added value expectations placed on organic products that go beyond legal requirements:

Climate protection – Food waste reduction – Energy and material consumption – Water management – Fairness – Circular economy and locally organised production systems
Ensuring flawlessness, transparency and truthfulness in product labelling and final packaging
Monitoring specified limits for prohibited substances through external analyses
Examination of supply chains
Conducting on-site audits, especially during the initial production of “ARGE BIO Standard approved” organic products
Limitation on the cultivation of identical products to conversion and recognised areas

More about the ARGE BIO Standard

Supplier evaluation

As a result of our inspection, you will receive product-specific supplier evaluations. This allows food suppliers (potentially with the facility of the last processing step) to showcase their performance and the added values of the delivered organic product can be represented.

By highlighting individual strengths and areas with potential for improvement, the evaluation aims to motivate stakeholders for further development. Our supplier evaluation enables the comparison of different suppliers. Therefore, these evaluations can be used as indicators for purchasing decisions.

As a result of our inspection, you will receive product-specific supplier evaluations. This allows food suppliers (potentially with the facility of the last processing step) to showcase their performance and the added values of the delivered organic product can be represented.

By highlighting individual strengths and areas with potential for improvement, the evaluation aims to motivate stakeholders for further development. Our supplier evaluation enables the comparison of different suppliers. Therefore, these evaluations can be used as indicators for purchasing decisions.

Example of an evaluation for a food retailer across 2 stages (contract partner with an external processing facility), illustrating the different assessments regarding the chapters in the ARGE BIO Standard V5. The safety aspect is included here to make it visible that all knock out and minimum criteria, and thus the safety aspect, are fully complied with.

Comparison of two companies to illustrate the differences in Chapter 2.5 Other Legitimate Added Value Expectations and Chapter 2.8 Organic commitment of System Participants at the sub-chapter level. In this form, it is also possible to go one step further into detail, compare more than 2 companies or highlight differences for specific (covered by the standard) areas of interest.

Your benefits

Safe, scandal-free and consistently available organic products

… where compliance with legal organic requirements is verified on a product-specific basis, not just as a sample
… additional rules apply to eliminate weaknesses in the control system.
… where timely risk mitigation is carried out through the examination of (planned) activities in advance or in real-time.
… that have detailed, upfront, and ongoing information about their origin, processing parties, and responsibilities for each step in the overall process.
… that have undergone a comprehensive system check, ensuring that the organic control chain has no gaps or interruptions.
… where the linkage of control processes between individual value-added stages is ensured, and the information from different stages has been checked for plausibility, making legal precautionary and preventive measures available across stages.

Safe, scandal-free and consistently available organic products

… where compliance with legal organic requirements is verified on a product-specific basis, not just as a sample
… additional rules apply to eliminate weaknesses in the control system.
… where timely risk mitigation is carried out through the examination of (planned) activities in advance or in real-time.
… that have detailed, upfront, and ongoing information about their origin, processing parties, and responsibilities for each step in the overall process.
… that have undergone a comprehensive system check, ensuring that the organic control chain has no gaps or interruptions.
… where the linkage of control processes between individual value-added stages is ensured, and the information from different stages has been checked for plausibility, making legal precautionary and preventive measures available across stages.

Organic products loaded with selected added values and demonstrable additional benefits

… that significantly exceed legal requirements
… that are assessed with a transparent system regarding additional expectations (e.g. from consumers and various influential organisations), making their added value demonstrable and communicable through the “ARGE BIO Standard approved” logo on packaging and in public (possibly with the image of the “ARGE BIO Standard approved” logo).
… that, taking into account the stakeholders responsible for their production, can be compared with similar organic products in terms of meeting the requirements of the ARGE BIO Standard.
… produced by organic suppliers that can be compared in terms of organic safety and their contributions to enhancing the credibility of organic products, allowing them to showcase their special contributions (also to purchasing).
… that can be classified as “particularly trustworthy” in various label evaluations and product rankings.
… that can contribute to achieving your company’s strategic (sustainability) objectives.
… through which a long-term connection with a particularly affluent and consumer-friendly group can be fostered.

Organic products loaded with selected added values and demonstrable additional benefits

… that significantly exceed legal requirements
… that are assessed with a transparent system regarding additional expectations (e.g. from consumers and various influential organisations), making their added value demonstrable and communicable through the “ARGE BIO Standard approved” logo on packaging and in public (possibly with the image of the “ARGE BIO Standard approved” logo).
… that, taking into account the stakeholders responsible for their production, can be compared with similar organic products in terms of meeting the requirements of the ARGE BIO Standard.
… produced by organic suppliers that can be compared in terms of organic safety and their contributions to enhancing the credibility of organic products, allowing them to showcase their special contributions (also to purchasing).
… that can be classified as “particularly trustworthy” in various label evaluations and product rankings.
… that can contribute to achieving your company’s strategic (sustainability) objectives.
… through which a long-term connection with a particularly affluent and consumer-friendly group can be fostered.

The ARGE BIO Standard