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 starts quality control activities from the field stage by conducting soil, water, and leaf analyses, and provides consulting services to farmers on crop management with its experienced team of agricultural engineers. It organizes widespread training to control environmental contaminants and raises producer awareness. By collecting samples from different stages of production, it keeps the risks of chemical pesticide contamination under control. Işık Tarım takes measures against chemical, physical, and biological hazards at the product/crop production stage, which is the first link in food production, and effectively manages threats that may arise throughout the supply chain.

Agricultural products arriving at our frozen fruit facilities from almost every region of Turkey and from the Happy Village project are assessed for quality/food safety compliance in laboratories that perform pesticide, microbiology, and physical-chemical analyses, and in laboratories operating domestically and internationally, thereby keeping all quality and food safety risks under control. overseas laboratories to assess quality/food safety compliance and keep all quality and food safety risks under control.

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Processing Process

Işık Tarım has organized its frozen food operations in accordance with the requirements of the BRC Food Safety Management System. In its facilities, it implements programs for Cleaning-Hygiene-Sanitation, foreign material contamination prevention, water management, product management, pest management, hygiene controls, Environmental Microbiological Monitoring Programs, Allergen management, and Waste management in line with “Good Manufacturing Practices” and continuously improves itself according to the updated requirements.

At Işık Tarım frozen food facilities, state-of-the-art laser, X-ray, magnet, and camera-based sorting systems are used from the moment the product enters the facility to remove any foreign matter and quality defects that may arise during the primary production stage. All final products are passed through metal detectors suitable for different production technologies. Throughout the operation, field observations, lot suitability checks, and process quality controls are carried out, and suitability assessments are performed by process quality control engineers.

Final Product

During the production process, all final products that have passed all compliance checks 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 assessment, the quality team evaluates the products according to the Product Release procedure and issues loading approvals. Işık Tarım Food Analysis Laboratories respond accurately, reliably, impartially, and quickly to the specified quality and food safety parameters and have their competence verified by participating in international proficiency tests. Qualitative tests and analyses, which begin in the field, continue in internal and external laboratories during the processing stage as well as in the final product stage.

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!