Food quality & processing
- Ingredient and raw-material quality
- Responsible processing
- Product transparency
- Food safety and quality systems
Assessment domains
What does healthier food production look like?
The framework looks beyond a single claim and asks how practices affect food, people, animals and the ecological systems that sustain production.
Farmers, workers & communities
- Fair and safe working conditions
- Producer resilience
- Local value creation
- Responsible supply relationships
Animal welfare
- Living conditions
- Behavioural needs
- Nutrition and access to resources
- Welfare outcomes
Animal health management
- Preventive health
- Responsible treatment
- Monitoring and records
- Low-stress handling
Soil & biodiversity
- Soil health practices
- Habitat and biodiversity
- Landscape resilience
- Agroecological management
Water, climate & circularity
- Water stewardship
- Energy and climate resilience
- Waste prevention
- Resource cycling
Evidence
Every claim should connect to something observable.
The final certification methodology should identify the evidence expected for each criterion, whether records, measurements, interviews, observations or verified third-party data.
Assessment logic
- Requirement is clearly stated
- Rationale explains why it matters
- Evidence is defined
- Threshold or scoring rule is explicit
- Corrective action is possible
Want to know how your production system could fit?
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