ANIMAL FEED INDUSTRY

QUALITY POLICIES

An advanced quality control and laboratory control system is in place to ensure quality of the feeds produced by our company. 6 similar laboratories equipped with efficient and high quality equipment are located in a total of 6 factories. The same standards are applied by 19 employees, one quality control manager and one laboratory manager in each of the labs. Two fundamental control systems, including physical and chemical control systems, control the most important content of the feeds, the raw material (such as corn, wheat, barley, rye, sunflower cake and bran).
 

List of Controls and their purposes are mentioned in the following clauses.

•    The purchasing department takes samples from the raw material in each truck making deliveries to related factories, and the color, smell, extraneous material, weeds and any broken or damaged grain not specific to raw material content of the samples are controlled.
 

The moisture rates of raw materials such as corn are determined using express moisture identification methods before delivery to storage rooms. Additionally, raw materials are tested for their aflatoxin contents by the labs, and raw materials containing hazardous amounts of this toxin are rejected.
 

Moisture:Moisture rate, as determined by the storage conditions of the raw material, is important in that if properly managed it can prevent contamination with hazardous substances such as mold.  
 

Aflatoxin:Aflatoxin is one of the 200 micro toxin varieties found in nature, and if it is consumed in certain amounts it can affect the growth performance of the animals. This toxin usually finds its way to the final consumer because it is not removed during control procedures. Therefore, constant control of this toxin is important not only for animal health but also for human health. Although aflatoxin is considered to be dangerous for poultries with only a single stomach, when it is consumed by cattle it is converted to M1 aflatoxin after it is metabolized, and this aflatoxin exits the animal's body along with its milk. This toxin is one of the most carcinogenic substances in nature. As a company, we exhibit the maximum effort to protect the health of the final consumer in this regard.
 

•    Raw materials that pass physical control are analyzed with NIR (Near Infrared Spectrophotometer) to ensure that their nutrition contents are compatible with certain standards. The NIR determines the amounts of moisture, protein, fat, amylum and ash contents of the raw material in 5 minutes and decides if these amounts are compatible with company standards. Use of the materials stocked in different areas of the feed plant in accordance to above contents is coordinated by formulation and quality control managers/ chiefs.
 

•    The raw materials that are stored in storage rooms are periodically controlled and quality loss problems in the raw material are prevented in this way. The most important application with respect to the the storage of raw materials is the "first come first goes" model.
 

•    In order to ensure that the products produced in our company are of the highest quality, we  only purchase material from companies that have proven quality and that hold quality assurance certificates.