The Responsible Alpaca Standard (RAS) is a voluntary standard that requires all sites, from alpaca farms through to the seller in the final business-to-business transaction, to be certified. RAS farmers and ranchers must meet animal-welfare, land-management, and social requirements.
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Global nonprofit that creates leaders in the preferred fiber and materials
industry.
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Has the goal of 45% reduction of C02 emissions from textile fiber and
material production by 2030.
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Promotes leading industry standards, manages and tracks the use of preferred
fibre and materials around the world.
All sites must be certified
* Numbers correct as of February 2022
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Alpaca farmers up to the seller in the final business-to business
transaction.
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Retailers (business-to-consumers) are not required to be certified.
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Farms are certified to the Animal Welfare and Land-Management and Social
Modules of the RAS
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Subsequent stages of the supply chain are certified to the Content Claim
Standard (CCS) requirements.
What does it involve?
Animal Welfare
- Nutrition
- Living environment
- Animal Management
- Handling and transport
- Land Management
Social Welfare
- Human Rights
- Child Labor
- Working conditions and Conduct
- Freedom of Association and Collective bargaining
- Wages and benefits
- Health and safety
Animal Welfare
- Soil
- Biodiversity
- Fertilizers
- Pesticides
Chain of Custody
- Farm chain of custody criteria