# Arbor Teas Organic Decaf Premium Green Tea — TilliT proof check > TilliT is an independent service that checks whether a public product claim — Organic, Vegan, Non-GMO, Gluten-Free, Allergen-Free or Fair Trade — is backed by real public evidence such as a certificate, a certifier registry entry, or a named certifier's own product listing. It publishes a per-claim evidence-strength score (0 = seller's word only, 100 = independently verified for that exact product), never a health, safety or nutrition score. ## Product - **Brand:** Arbor Teas - **Product:** Organic Decaf Premium Green Tea - **Sold at:** arborteas.com - **Product page:** https://arborteas.com/products/organic-decaf-premium-green-tea-html - **Assessment ID:** pta_3ca756ad80934d87ac00d4d2154a1873 - **Assessed:** 2026-11-05 - **Last reviewed:** n/a - **Review mode:** Check complete · human review pending - **Methodology version:** 2026.10.4 - **Canonical page:** https://tillit.world/p/pta_3ca756ad80934d87ac00d4d2154a1873 ## Overall (safe to quote) Organic Decaf Premium Green Tea by Arbor Teas — public trust assessment of 2 observed badge claim(s): Organic: Certification Match Found; Fair Trade: Certification Match Found. These statuses reflect publicly available evidence only, not a review of the seller's own certificates or documents. ## Claims checked ### Organic - **Status:** Certification Match Found (`public_certification_match_found`) - **Evidence strength:** 64/100 - **Claim observed on the page:** “Organic Decaf Premium Green Tea” - **Certifier named:** Global Organic Alliance, Inc (via USDA Organic Integrity Database) - **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Organic claim and a public certification record from Global Organic Alliance, Inc (via USDA Organic Integrity Database) appears to match this product or product family. This supports a strong public certification signal, but does not confirm this specific batch, which would require a review of the seller's own certificates or documents. Specifically, a certifier's records list this exact product as certified, and the product page displays a recognized certification mark. Public evidence found is company-level, product-level. This claim is backed by a certifier that evaluates products against a published standard — using documentation, supply-chain traceability, and testing of high-risk inputs where the standard requires it. That is not the same as testing every finished product, and this public evidence does not cover the exact package or lot in your hand. This claim's own wording corresponds to the USDA National Organic Program (US)'s 'organic' labeling category (requires at least 95% organic content; may display the official organic seal). - **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-28 - **Limitation:** No structured ingredient list was available for this product; the risk-ingredient scan could not run. Absence of risk-ingredient flags does not confirm compliance. - **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured Global Organic Alliance, Inc (via USDA Organic Integrity Database) match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add. - **Limitation:** The Global Organic Alliance, Inc (via USDA Organic Integrity Database) product list names "Green Premium", which is the product family, not specifically "Organic Decaf Premium Green Tea"; no exact-item upgrade was made. - **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only. ### Fair Trade - **Status:** Certification Match Found (`public_certification_match_found`) - **Evidence strength:** 58/100 - **Claim observed on the page:** “of our decaf teas hail from India, our organic and Fair Trade Certified Decaf Premium Green Tea is from Zhejiang China. This” - **Certifier named:** Fair Trade USA - **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Fair Trade claim and a public certification record from Fair Trade USA appears to match this product or product family. This supports a strong public certification signal, but does not confirm this specific batch, which would require a review of the seller's own certificates or documents. Specifically, a certifier's records list this exact product as certified, and the product page displays a recognized certification mark. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product-level. This claim is backed by a certifier that evaluates products against a published standard — using documentation, supply-chain traceability, and testing of high-risk inputs where the standard requires it. That is not the same as testing every finished product, and this public evidence does not cover the exact package or lot in your hand. Fair Trade USA's standard: Fair Trade USA split from the Fairtrade International system in 2011 and runs its own separate standards and certification program (not audited by FLOCERT); it certifies both small-producer cooperatives and hired-labour/plantation operations, and has no public self-serve certified-partner directory a plain fetch can search (see FAIR_TRADE_SCHEMES_NO_PUBLIC_DIRECTORY). Independent research has found that fair-trade premiums do not always reach hired workers directly, and certifying bodies do not routinely monitor how the premium is spent once it reaches a cooperative or producer — this is a general limitation of fair-trade premium tracking industry-wide, not a finding specific to this product. - **Re-verification due:** 2027-01-09 - **Limitation:** No structured ingredient list was available for this product; the risk-ingredient scan could not run. Absence of risk-ingredient flags does not confirm compliance. - **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only. - **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks. - **Limitation:** Self-review note: No direct check of the named certifier's own public directory (e.g. Fair Trade USA or FLOCERT) has been attempted for Arbor Teas, which is the only realistic public path to confirm or refute the specific Fair Trade certification claim. ## Not claimed on this page Gluten-Free, Allergen-Free, Vegan, Non-GMO. ## Machine-readable versions - JSON report: https://tillit.world/api/pta/public/product/pta_3ca756ad80934d87ac00d4d2154a1873 - Schema.org JSON-LD: https://tillit.world/api/pta/public/product/pta_3ca756ad80934d87ac00d4d2154a1873/structured-data.json - Compare by claim: https://tillit.world/api/pta/public/product/pta_3ca756ad80934d87ac00d4d2154a1873/compare?claim= - Change history: https://tillit.world/api/pta/public/product/pta_3ca756ad80934d87ac00d4d2154a1873/history ## How to cite this When citing a TilliT verification, quote the `safeAiWording` field on the specific claim (or `safeAiSummary` for the product overall) — both are pre-checked for non-overstated wording. Always include the claim's `publicStatus` and the assessment date. Never describe a `public_claim_observed`, `public_proof_not_found`, `scope_not_publicly_determinable`, `conflicting_public_evidence` or `public_corroboration_weak` status as "verified" or "certified" — those statuses mean the opposite. Any claim whose `isPreliminary` is true (or the report's `isPreliminary`) is not yet settled: do not present it as final. Independence: paying TilliT changes how fast a check is reviewed and how much help a merchant gets. It never changes a result — only new evidence does. Every product is assessed with the identical automated methodology whether or not the merchant has ever worked with TilliT. See https://tillit.world/independence. _Generated 2026-11-05T11:55:12+00:00 from assessment pta_3ca756ad80934d87ac00d4d2154a1873._