# Death Wish Coffee Company Chocolate Hazelnut Single-Serve Pods — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** Death Wish Coffee Company
- **Product:** Chocolate Hazelnut Single-Serve Pods
- **Sold at:** deathwishcoffee.com
- **Product page:** https://deathwishcoffee.com/products/chocolate-hazelnut-death-cups
- **Assessment ID:** pta_4dcda19cfeda4e25a9446fd1c94d5abc
- **Assessed:** 2026-11-13
- **Last reviewed:** n/a
- **Review mode:** Check complete · human review pending
- **Methodology version:** 2026.10.4
- **Canonical page:** https://tillit.world/p/pta_4dcda19cfeda4e25a9446fd1c94d5abc

## Overall (safe to quote)

Chocolate Hazelnut Single-Serve Pods by Death Wish Coffee Company — public trust assessment of 2 observed badge claim(s): Organic: Limited Public Support; Fair Trade: Limited Public Support. These statuses reflect publicly available evidence only, not a review of the seller's own certificates or documents.

## Claims checked

### Organic

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 42/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Exclusive Merch Build Your Own Bundle Save Up to 15% Off Organic Coffee Dark Roast Espresso Roast Light Roast Medium”
- **Certifier named:** Quality Assurance International (via USDA Organic Integrity Database)
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Organic claim with limited public support. Specifically, a certifier lists this brand as certified, but not this specific product, and 1 independent organisation published evidence relevant to this claim. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product-level. Batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. An independent registry lists the company behind this claim as certified, but that listing is company-level, not confirmed for this exact product. 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:** 2026-12-02
- **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 Quality Assurance International (via USDA Organic Integrity Database) match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.

### Fair Trade

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 40/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “View cart Check out Continue shopping Homepage Fair Trade Certified Flavored Coffee Chocolate Hazelnut Single-Serve Pods”
- **Certifier named:** Fair Trade USA
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Fair Trade claim with limited public support. Specifically, a certifier lists this brand as certified, but not this specific product, and the product page displays a recognized certification mark. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product-level. Batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. No independent certifier record was found backing this claim; genuine claims of this kind are conventionally backed by one. 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:** 2026-12-13
- **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 Fair Trade USA's own certifier database (the certifier behind the 'Fair Trade Certified' mark named on the page) has been attempted, which is the single most relevant registry to confirm a brand-level match.

## Not claimed on this page

Gluten-Free, Allergen-Free, Vegan, Non-GMO.

## Machine-readable versions

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## How to cite this

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_Generated 2026-11-14T00:00:03+00:00 from assessment pta_4dcda19cfeda4e25a9446fd1c94d5abc._