Executable

Does this page say the coffee is organic?

ALS-COFFEE-1.1-CERT-001

This question is asked as a test and produces a result for a real page.

Assertion

organic_claim_stated is_stated true

Applicability

applies when
the product is roasted coffee offered to consumers in any format
signal
product_type or title indicates coffee

Accepted evidence

  • product_description — an explicit organic statement naming the certifying agent e.g. Certified organic by Oregon Tilth.
  • structured_data — the same statement inside the JSON-LD product description
  • product_faq — the same statement in FAQ structured data

Explicitly insufficient evidence

What does not count, and why. Published because the omission is where a check quietly becomes a claim.

  • the bare word "organic"
    An operation selling under the US small-operation threshold may lawfully call its product organic without certification, so the word alone is evidence of nothing checkable.
  • "organically grown", "organic practices", "beyond organic", "transitional"
    None of these sits inside the four regulated label tiers, and "beyond organic" specifically is marketing that positions itself as superior to the only checkable category.
  • "made with organic ingredients"
    That is a distinct and lower labelling tier with a seventy per cent threshold which may not use the seal, and a naive check scores it as equivalent to organic.
  • a rendered organic seal image with no agent named
    Image content is not page text and the seal resolves to nothing on its own; the certifier's name is the field the rule requires precisely because the seal is unverifiable without it.
  • a farm's or exporter's certificate offered while the roaster is uncertified
    Only a certified handler may use the seal, so the register must resolve to the roaster; this is the most legitimate-looking substitution in coffee because the farm genuinely is certified.
  • an EU control-body code such as XX-BIO-NNN treated as identifying the seller
    The code identifies the control body that audits, never the operator audited, so a check that resolves the code has verified nothing about this seller.
  • "certified organic since 2011"
    A certification history is not a current status, and the register publishes surrendered, suspended and revoked precisely because real certificates stop being real.

Conflict rules

  • When the description claims organic and the shipping policy page also contains the word — then read only product surfaces; a document about orders is not evidence about this product precedence: product_description > structured_data
  • When an organic claim and a contradicting statement both appear — then the engine reports the contradiction and does not pass the row, which is the correct fail-closed behaviour

What a pass licenses

A pass establishes: That readable product text on this page states an organic claim of some form, quoted verbatim where a clean sentence exists.

A pass does NOT establish: That any operation is certified, that a certifying agent was named, that the claim resolves in any register, or that the claim is about the coffee rather than the packaging.

Discrimination

Measured fail rate: 92.0% (n=100 products asked)

Predicted before this standard had ever run: 30-70% — the real rate is higher, so the entry discriminates less than predicted.

Organic is common in specialty coffee but far from universal, and the engine's dictionary matches the bare word as well as the certified phrasings, so the row will pass wherever the word appears at all. The band is wide because the pass condition is looser than the question a buyer is asking.

Known gaps

  • "A gift bundle of our house blends." with an organic phrase in the shipping policy's page title — false_pass
    Claim rows do not exclude the shipping-policy surface and the policy fold-in carries SEO chrome, so a claim about the product can be proven from a document about orders. Found on a real tea store and being fixed concurrently.
  • "Love that it's fragrance-free!" — a customer in Portland. — false_pass
    A review quote credited as the store's own statement. Applies to every claim row, and coffee pages carry heavy review content.
  • "The tube is BPA-free." — false_pass
    A container property credited to the contents. The coffee analogue is an organic-cotton or compostable-bag claim crediting the coffee.
  • "Most cheap versions are made from thin stamped steel." — false_pass
    The comparative veto tolerates only one word between "most" and its verb, so "Most supermarket blends are organic" would credit a competitor's property to this product.

For a shopper

The word organic on its own can be lawful without any certification for a small seller, so what matters is whether a certifying agent is named. You can check a named agent and the roaster's legal name against the USDA Organic INTEGRITY Database yourself, free, and see whether the certificate is current.

For a merchant

If a certifying agent certified the operation that packs this coffee, name that agent in product-page text alongside the legal operation name, so a reader can resolve the pair in the public register rather than taking a seal image on trust.

Grounding

  • US National Organic Program, 7 CFR 205.303 (legal_instrument)
    that where a packaged product is labelled organic the certifying agent's name must appear on the information panel, which is why a named agent rather than a seal is the evidence a reader needs
  • USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, published organic enforcement settlements (regulator)
    that organic misrepresentation is a real and enforced failure mode in coffee specifically, including a roaster that settled for a fifteen-thousand-dollar civil penalty for representing products as organic without certification
  • CCOF, guidance on using the Organic INTEGRITY Database (certification_body)
    that the register is described by a certifying agent authorised under the national organic programme as the official place to check whether an operation is certified, which is the intended verification route rather than the agent's own word