Benefits of eating organic food
There are many benefits of choosing organic food including:
- Supporting environmentally friendly farming in rural Ireland
- Endorsing farming that places animal welfare as a top priority
- Rearing farm animals without the routine use of drugs, antibiotics, and
- wormers that are commonly used in intensive livestock farming
- Prohibiting the use of genetically modifed organisms (GMOs)
- or irradiation of food
- Prohibiting the use of artificial chemical fertilisers and severely restricting the
- use of pesticides
- Developing a healthy, fertile soil.

Inspection and certification
Each year our inspectors visit every farmer, grower, and processor who is certified by us. We check all of the farming and food processing activities and ensure that they meet our standards. We also carry out unannounced spot checks on a proportion of our licensees.

If our standards have been met then the operator may market their produce as organic using our logo and a European Union code (IRL-OIB2-EU in Ireland and UK7 in Northern Ireland). If the product is imported then packaging or display materials should state the country of origin and the name or code of the recognised inspection body.