Quality

Since our establishment, Işık Tarım has been producing with sensitivity towards ensuring food safety from farm to table.

With the "Quality" and "Safe Food" principles we implement within our organization, we work to minimize food safety risks in agricultural and production areas, in line with our role in the food supply chain. With awareness of national and international legal requirements, we continue our pioneering role in the sector by fulfilling quality and food safety conditions within the scope of our responsibilities to ourselves and our customers.

In line with our broad role in the food supply chain, we continuously carry out activities with our farmers, employees, solution partners, suppliers, and customers to establish and maintain the Food Safety Culture.

Işık Tarım effectively manages potential food safety risks by following legal changes, scientific developments, and emerging processes, and makes 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 starts quality control activities from the field stage by conducting soil, water, and leaf analyses, and provides consultancy to farmers on crop management with our experienced agricultural engineer staff. We organize widespread training to control environmental contaminants and increase producer awareness. We keep chemical pesticide contamination risks under control by collecting samples from different stages of production. Işık Tarım Zonguldak Ormanlı Facility effectively manages potential threats throughout the supply chain by taking measures against chemical, physical, and biological hazards in the product/crop production stage, which is the first link in food production.

Agricultural products reaching our facilities from Turkey's Western Black Sea region and the Happy Hazelnut project are evaluated for quality/food safety compliance with our laboratories that conduct pesticide, microbiology, mycotoxin, and other physical-chemical analyses, as well as domestic and international laboratories we work with, and all quality and food safety risks are kept under control.

Processing Process

Işık Tarım has organized the Zonguldak-Ormanlı Hazelnut Facility according to BRC Food Safety Management System requirements. In our facilities; we implement Cleaning-Hygiene-Sanitation practices in accordance with "Good Manufacturing Practices", foreign matter 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 renewed conditions.

At Işık Tarım Zonguldak-Ormanlı Hazelnut Facility, all types of foreign matter and quality defects that may come from the primary production stage are removed using advanced technology Laser, camera-based sorting systems, stone separators, aspirators, and sieves from the product entry stage, and all final products pass through metal detectors suitable for different production technologies. During operation, field observations, lot compliance checks, and process quality controls are performed, and compliance evaluations are made by process quality control engineers.

Final Product

Final products that have passed all compliance checks during operation 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 evaluation, loading approvals are given by the quality team according to the Product Release/Hold procedure. Işık Tarım Food Analysis Laboratories respond to the determined quality and food safety parameters in a correct, reliable, impartial, and fast manner, and their competence is verified by participating in international proficiency tests. Quality tests and analyses that begin in the field continue in internal and external laboratories at the final product stage, as in the processing process.

Physical Analysis

After the physical controls carried out at the Raw Material stage and passing through many different quality tests, our products that reach the final product stage undergo physical analysis again in our laboratories. Physical quality control is performed on all products using the following physical tests;

Appearance
Count and Size
Defects
Foreign Materials
Weight

Chemical Analysis

After different tests and analyses performed 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 performed 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 performed 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 moving forward to become a world brand by producing safe and healthy products with the idea of respect for the ecosystem that extends from seed to human. Işık Tarım, which prioritizes the health and safety of its customers, continues to work tirelessly to maintain its leadership in the organic food sector by integrating global quality standards with the institutions it has developed within its organization.

If it's not safe, it's not food!