Whole Trade™ Guarantee

Whole Trade™ Guarantee

The products in this program must meet specific criteria that demand quality in four areas of responsibility: meets our high quality standards, provides more money to producers, ensures better wages and working conditions for workers, and Cares for the environment.

Learn more: Whole Trade™ Guarantee websiteExternal Site

Ecolabel details | What are the characteristics of the standard(s) related to this ecolabel?

Standard is not available online, and is reviewed with an unknown frequency.

Number of standards 1 Adapted for regional / national / local conditions No Standards in development 0 Standards in revision 0 Performance requirements Unknown

Ecolabel addresses these stages:

Supply-chain phases Mining / Extraction Processing / Manufacturing Commodity Production Transportation / Logistics Trade / Retail End / Consumer Use Product Recovery / Recycling

Ecolabel addresses these issues:

Social attributes

Fair Trade, Human Rights, Work Safety

Environmental attributes

Animal welfare, GMOs, Pesticides / Herbicides / Fungicides, Toxics

Tracks environmental/social impacts

Unknown


Mutual recognition:

Recognizes other ecolabels as equivalent

No

Recognized as equivalent by other ecolabels

No

Ecolabel development | How were the standards for this ecolabel developed?

Standard(s) developed / managed by

Unknown

Standard-setting norm(s) followed

Unknown

Standard-setting process

Not open and consensus-based

External stakeholders involved in standard-setting

Unknown

Conformity assessment | How is compliance with this ecolabel's standard ensured?

Conformity with Whole Trade™ Guarantee's standard is verified by unknown.

Verifiers accredited

Unknown

Frequency of ongoing audits

Unknown

Certification / registration required

Unknown

Public audit / assessment reports

Unknown

Chain-of-custody data

No

Corrective action reports issued

Unknown

Field site visit(s)

No

Duration of certification

Unknown

Specific metrics and data

No

Time to achieve certification / registration

Unknown

Time series data

Unknown

Dispute resolution process

Unknown

Ongoing audits / surveillance following certification

Unknown

Managing organization | Who manages this ecolabel?

Name

Whole Foods

Type For-profit

Address 550 Bowie Street
Austin, TX
8703-4644

Year est. Unknown Member of Unknown Funding sources Unknown

Phone +1512.477.4455 Email Unknown

Key data

Year ecolabel est. Unknown Compliance type Pass / Fail

Classification | Who, what, where

Target audience(s)


This ecolabel certifies


Product categories this ecolabel applies to


Where this ecolabel is found
Unknown


Has issued its ecolabel in
Unknown




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Last updated: 17 June 2010