Soil Association Organic

Soil Association is a charity based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1946. Today they have almost 30000 members. It developed the world's first organic certification system in 1967 – standards which have since widened to encompass agriculture, aquaculture, ethical trade, food processing, forestry, health & beauty, horticulture and textiles.  

The Soil Association carries out work certifying products as organic in the following areas:

• Organic farming
• Organic food processing
• Organic restaurants and catering
• Organic fisheries
• Organic textiles and leather
• Organic health and beauty

The Soil Association played also a leading role in the development of the Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS).