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 to establish and maintain a Food Safety Culture with our farmers, employees, solution partners, suppliers, and customers.

Işık Tarım follows legal changes, scientific developments, and emerging processes, effectively manages potential food safety risks, 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 crop management consulting to farmers through 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 effectively manages potential threats throughout the supply chain by taking measures against chemical, physical, and biological hazards in the first link of food production - the product/crop production stage.

Agricultural products reaching our facilities from all regions of Turkey and the Happy Village project are evaluated for quality/food safety compliance through our in-house laboratories and domestic/international partner laboratories that conduct pesticide, microbiology, mycotoxin, and other physical-chemical analyses in accordance with food safety requirements, 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 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, continuously improving ourselves according to updated conditions.

At Işık Tarım facilities, all types of foreign matter and quality defects that may come from the primary production stage are removed using advanced technology Laser, X-ray, and camera-based sorting systems from the moment the product enters, and all final products pass through metal detectors appropriate for different production technologies. Throughout the operation, compliance assessments are made by process quality control engineers through field observations, lot compliance checks, and process quality controls.

Final Product

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

Physical Analysis

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

Appearance
Count and Size
Defects
Foreign Matter
Weight

Chemical Analysis

After different tests and analyses conducted during raw material acceptance and processing, our products that reach the final product stage undergo certain chemical tests.

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

Microbiological Analysis

After different tests and analyses conducted during raw material acceptance and processing, our products that reach the final product stage undergo certain 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 conducted 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 progressing towards becoming 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, continuously works 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!