It does. The USDA (US), EU (Europe), and JAS (Japan) organic certifying bodies are extremely strict, and guarantee a certain standard of cultivation, processing, storage, and more that far outpaces conventional agriculture in terms of environmental impact and human health. Despite what you may hear, the organic standard is seriously trustworthy, and in most instances is a better choice than uncertified tea. That said, it's not always better—sometimes, certified organic growers are working with inferior material, have poor production standards, or are otherwise not producing great tea, albeit organic.The most ideal tea comes from older tea trees growing on clean land (no artifical agrochemicals used, ever) at high elevation, and produced to finish by true masters of tea making. Organic can be a helpful buying guideline (especially in a grocery store setting where all the tea is liable to be subpar quality), but other metrics matter more to us. You decide what's important to you.