Quality

As Işık Tarım, we have been producing with sensitivity to ensure food safety from field to dinner since the day we were founded.

With the principles of "Quality" and "Safe Food" that we apply within our organization, we strive to minimize food safety risks in agricultural and production areas in accordance with our role in the food supply chain. Aware of the requirements of national and international legal regulations, we resolutely maintain our pioneering role in the sector by fulfilling quality and food safety requirements within the scope of our responsibilities towards ourselves and our customers.

In line with our extensive role in the food supply chain, we carry out continuous activities with our farmers, employees, solution partners, suppliers and customers to create and maintain a Food Safety Culture. Işık Tarım effectively manages food safety risks that may arise by following legal changes, scientific developments and newly developed processes, and makes the necessary investments to integrate innovations into the system. Our company produces organic, sustainable, healthy and safe products for society.

Raw Material

Işık Tarım's food safety practices begin in the field. Our company initiates quality control activities from the field stage by conducting soil, water, and leaf analyses, and provides consultancy to farmers on crop management through our experienced agricultural engineer staff. We organize widespread training to control environmental contaminants and increase producer awareness. We collect samples from different stages of production to keep chemical pesticide contamination risks under control. Işık Tarım takes measures against chemical, physical, and biological hazards in the first link of food production, the product/crop production stage, and effectively manages potential threats throughout the supply chain.

Agricultural products reaching our facilities from almost every region of Turkey and the Happy Village project are evaluated for quality/food safety compliance through laboratories within our organization that conduct pesticide, microbiology, mycotoxin, and other physical-chemical analyses, as well as domestic and international laboratories we work with, keeping all quality and food safety risks under control.

Processing Process

Işık Tarım has organized its facilities according to BRC and IFS Food Safety Management System requirements. In our facilities, we implement "Good Manufacturing Practices" in line with Cleaning-Hygiene-Sanitation, foreign material contamination prevention measures, water management, product management, pest management, hygiene controls, Environmental Microbiological Monitoring Programs, Allergen management, and Waste management programs, and continuously improve ourselves according to changing conditions.

In Işık Tarım facilities, from the entry of the product, advanced technology Laser, X-ray, and camera-based sorting systems are used to remove all types of foreign materials and quality defects that may come from the primary production stage, and all final products pass through different metal detectors suitable for different production technologies. During the facility process, field observations, lot compliance controls, and process quality controls are carried out, and compliance evaluations are made by process quality control engineers.

Final Product

Final products that have passed all compliance controls during the facility process are checked one last time according to the final product control parameters determined by customer requirements and legal requirements. After physical, chemical, and microbiological compliance evaluations, loading approvals are given by the quality team according to the Product Release procedure. Işık Tarım Food Analysis Laboratories respond to the determined quality and food safety parameters in a correct, reliable, impartial, and fast manner, and participate in international proficiency tests to verify competence. Quality tests and analyses that begin in the field continue in the final product stage, as in the processing process, in both internal and external laboratories.

Physical Analysis

After physical inspections at the raw material stage, products undergo various quality tests and are subjected to further physical analysis in our laboratories upon reaching the final product stage. Comprehensive physical quality control is performed on all final products by applying the physical tests listed below.

Appearance
Number and Size
Defects
Foreign Materials
Weight

Chemical Analysis

After different tests and analyses carried out during Raw Material acceptance and processing, our products that reach the final product stage undergo some chemical tests.

Moisture
Water Activity
Sulfur Dioxide
Oil
Peroxide Value
Acidity Value
Free Chlorine Determination

Microbiological Analysis

After different tests and analyses carried out during Raw Material acceptance and processing, our products that reach the final product stage undergo some microbiological tests.

Total Aerobic Bacteria
Mold
Yeast
Enterobacteriaceae
Coliform
Escherichia coli
Bacillus Cereus
Staphylococcus Aureus
Listeria Monocytogenes
Salmonella Spp.

Instrumental Analysis

After different tests and analyses carried out during Raw Material acceptance and processing, our products that reach the final product stage undergo necessary instrumental tests.

Aflatoxin
Ochratoxin
Patulin
Polar Pesticides
Hydrocyanic Acid
GC-MS/MS
LC-MS/MS
HS-GC-MS

Işık Tarım is on its way to becoming a worldwide brand by producing safe and healthy products with the idea of respect for the ecosystem starting from the seed and extending to human beings. Prioritizing the health and safety of its customers, Işık Tarım is constantly working to maintain its leadership in the organic food sector by integrating global quality criteria with the institutions it has developed within its organization.

If it not safe, it is not food!