INDUSTRY
CODE OF PRACTICE
The global benchmark for tea tree oil quality.
ATTIA Code of Practice
GROWING
HARVESTING
DISTILLING
SUPPLY
Compliance with the Code of Practice (COP) is a stringent mandatory requirement to be a Certified ATTIA
member, which ensures the quality and safety of 100% Pure Australian Tea Tree Oil.
First implemented in 2005, the Code of Practice is a Quality Assurance system to regulate all facets of the
production of 100% pure Australian tea tree oil, from seed to drum and beyond.
CERTIFICATION PROCESS
Certified Members are subject to a rigorous
Code of Practice auditing process:
All aspects of the operation.
Up to 8 hours per audit depending on the business.
Two passed audits to become certified.
Yearly audit once compliant.
The certification process also ensures compliance with Australian Biosecurity, Workplace Health and Safety, and Pesticides
Acts, Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority Regulations, and International Standards for tea tree oil,
distillation, and the handling of dangerous goods.
Tea Tree Oil Standards
Commercial standards specify certain characteristics of the essential oil of Melaleuca, terpinen-4-ol type (Tea Tree oil).
ISO 4730: 2017
AS 2782: 2017
These standards are important in the identification of fraudulent tea tree oil.
The ATTIA Code of Practice is a quality management system.
It goes much further than commercial standards, spanning farm to processing, supply chain to end-user.
Critical Control Points
The ATTIA Code of Practice is built on a framework of best practice production and processing methodologies.
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Po...
Quality Management ISO 9001:2000
This framework is designed to prevent biological, chemical, and physical
hazards in the production of 100% pure Australian tea tree oil.
Farm Layout and Operations
Plant Protection Products
Harvesting
Distillation
Handlling, Filtration and Storage
Shipment and Export
100% pure Australian tea tree oil is traceable from seed to paddock, and distillery to drum.
Complying to the Code of Practice
Our compliance processes ensure integrity across the entire supply chain.
Integrated producers must fully comply.
Growers must ensure contractors are complian...
Contractors must ensure growers are complian...
Globally Recognised Quality Assurance
The importance of ATTIA’s Code of Practice has been acknowledged by the European Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety.
‘The SCCS is of the opinion that on the basis of the ATTIA Code of Practice and the Guidance document, a safe processing and storing of Tea Tree Oil can be achieved which can be controlled by measuring p-cymene content’.
- European Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety
The SCCS statement means that anyone purchasing 100% pure Australian tea tree oil in the European Union can be confident that it has been
produced under a Quality Assurance system that is implemented from the moment a seedling is planted in the ground.
‘The ATTIA Code of Practice is a world leading Quality Assurance
system that instils the utmost confidence in any product labelled
with the ATTIA certification Trustmark.’
David Cousins – ATTIA Board Director
