CERTIFICATION TYPES

There are 2 fees, an application fee and a 3 year Licence Fee should certification be achieved

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A company applies and after an extensive and thorough research of their product/s or process  by our Assessment Team, if they are deemed to be free from palm oil / palm oil derivatives they will receive certification on the products or process contained within their application. 

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THE FEES

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1) The Application Fee (invoiced first) after payment is received an application form is sent to you.

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2) The Triennial Licence Fee (this covers the Certification Trademark Licence for 3yrs and is invoiced after you have been notified that your assessment is successful) 

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There are 5 Application and Triennial Licence fee tiers 

available which enables companies of all sizes to apply. 

The fees are based on the company's gross annual income

and are in Australian Dollars.

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All profits from this certification trademark get donated to our Partner NGOs on the ground working to protect rainforests and all they contain. 

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If Certification is approved it is mandatory for the company

to display the Palm Oil Free Certification Trademark on

the label of each of the products contained in their

application and which they sell and on their website. 

 

Companies are assessed every 3 years and if successful renewed for a further 3 years. (audits may be conducted during each 3 year period without notice)

 

If after researching the ingredients of a product we are not

100% satisfied then the product won’t be certified.

The final decision rests with POFCAP.  At this point in time

we are happy to help companies with reformulation of that product to the best of our abilities.

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The use of the Palm Oil Free Certification Trademark on a company's product labels is mandatory. 

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There are two Stages in the Application Process. Some companies will only require Stage 1 whilst others may require Stage 2.  If you are a company and you would like more detailed information about our Certification Process please click below. 

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The International Palm Oil Free Certification Trademark's Certification process has evolved over many years of research and data collection. We learnt many years ago that you can’t  'back engineer' a product. This means you can’t simply submit a product for testing to a lab and find out if it contains palm oil or palm oil derivatives.  Testing is not specific enough to detect the thousands of palm oil derivatives made from palm oil. The lab could detect for example ‘glycerine’ in a product however it can’t specifically say what the source of that glycerine is so this rules out back engineering as a research method.

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For these reasons POFCAP has developed its own research methods and consumers can be sure the ingredients POFCAP has assessed have been assessed thoroughly. We rely on evidence not hearsay. 

 

POFCAP's International Palm Oil Free Certification Trademark assesses and certifies products and companies only it does not recommend or market them. POFCAP publishes all certified companies on their website and across social media to share with consumers who are interested. 

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This certification programme certifies if a product, company or process is palm oil and palm oil derivative free.

To be more specific this means any part of Elaeis guineensis the African oil palm or Elaeis oleifera the American oil palm

including but not limited to the pulp/flesh, fruit, kernel, oil,

leaf, husk, flowers, stalk, fibre, shell, empty bunch trunk,

bark, petiole, rachis, sludge & palm kernel cake.

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**IT IS ILLEGAL TO DISPLAY POFCAP'S INTERNATIONAL PALM OIL FREE CERTIFICATION TRADEMARK UNLESS YOU HAVE UNDERGONE THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS AND BEEN SUCCESSFULLY CERTIFIED BY POFCAP.

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