Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Standard
What does this mean?
The agriculture standard is used in more than 70 countries around the globe. The Rainforest Alliance’s program focuses on coffee, cocoa, tea, bananas, and many other important commodity sectors facing urgent environmental and social challenges.
The Farm Requirements of the Sustainable Agriculture Standard are designed to help farmers protect the landscapes where they live and work, while offering an enhanced framework to improve their livelihoods and advance the human rights of rural people.
Standard version: V1.2
Start date: December 20, 2022
Issue date: May 24, 2023
Expiration date: December 19, 2025
Certificate code: NC-SC-052163
SGS – Global Standard for Food Safety
What does this mean?
Dilmah has been assessed and certified as meeting the requirements of Global Standard for Food Safety.
Achieved Grade: AA+
Certificate Issue Date: 23 October 2022
Re-Evaluation Due Date 22 December 2023
Certificate Expiry Date: 02 February 2024
For the following activities:
Blending, cleaning and packaging of tea, flavoured tea and herbal infusions in value added form- in bags, packets and bulk including outsourcing of decaffeination of tea.
Carbon Neutral Product – ISO 14067:2018
What does this mean?
Sri Lanka Climate Fund (Pvt) Ltd. certifies that Dilmah Ceylon Tea Company PLC has offset its Product Carbon Footprint of 31,776 tCO2e for the year 2021/22 from Certified Emission Reductions (SCERs) of CDM registered project, 155 MW Gas based combined cycle power project at Hazira.
Lifecycle assessment boundary of this product includes raw material acquisition, finished good manufacturing and distribution up to the destination ports.
Evidence