Certifications & Quality Standards

What we stand on

Quality you can verify, lot after lot

The certifications, standards and traceability practices that govern every cardamom shipment we send from Tanzania. Each lot is documented; documentation references are supplied with the bill of lading.

TBS-Certified Processing

Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS)

Active

Our cardamom cleaning, grading and packing operations run under Tanzania Bureau of Standards certification — the national food-safety and product-quality framework for exports from Tanzania.

Issuer
Tanzania Bureau of Standards
Coverage
Curing intake, cleaning, size grading, storage, packing and export documentation for green cardamom.

Moisture, Oil & Foreign-Matter Lab Testing

Independent laboratory analysis on every export lot

Active

Every lot is analysed by an independent laboratory before despatch — moisture, volatile-oil content, foreign matter and empty or immature pods, with any residue screening required by the destination market.

Issuer
Independent laboratory (per destination market)
Coverage
Sample drawn across each lot, tested before despatch, results documented and tied to the bill of lading.

Single-Origin Traceability

Highland-garden chain of custody

Active

Each carton is tied to a specific Tanzanian highland origin — the Uluguru Mountains of Morogoro or the Usambara Mountains of Tanga — and to a defined picking window inside the season.

Issuer
Internal — verifiable from grower group records
Coverage
Farm-gate intake records, lot moisture verification, curing and storage chain through to despatch.

Organic Chain-of-Custody

Organic lot documentation on request

Aligned with

Organic green cardamom is sourced from dedicated farm clusters in the Uluguru foothills. Chain-of-custody documentation is arranged per contract against the buyer's certification scheme rather than held as a blanket claim.

Issuer
Arranged per contract with the buyer's certification scheme
Coverage
Named farm clusters, segregated intake and storage, lot-tied documentation agreed contract by contract.
Ask for documents

Quality docs supplied with every shipment

Phytosanitary certificate, certificate of origin, moisture, oil and foreign-matter lab reports tied to the shipped lots, bill of lading and processing references. Tell us the destination market and we'll confirm what we can document for your contract.