Organic food: labelling and advertising rules
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Rules on certifying and labelling organic food, feed and seed.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Rules on certifying and labelling organic food, feed and seed. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- When you need certification
- Labelling products as organic
- If your organic food has less than 95% organic ingredients
- Processed feed
- Get your label approved by a UK organic control body
- What you need to include on your labelling
- Control body code number
- Statement of agricultural origin in Great Britain
- Statement of agricultural origin in Northern Ireland
- Using the EU logo in Great Britain
- Using the EU logo in Northern Ireland
Source and licence
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Organic food: labelling and advertising rules’ (updated 20 August 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026