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Strict hygiene management and quality control based on safety and security
Each worker in the factory produces goods under the mottos "Deliver great taste and impression" and "Clean and honest company". Each product from the customer's perspective with quality control standards and a heightened awareness for hygiene.
To insure the safety of our products, checkpoints have been set up throughout the processing for raw materials, manufacturing/processing, and delivery and each criterion is strictly adhered to. Our inspection system for guaranteeing the safety of our products is replete with our fully equipped inspection room and the introduction of the x-ray foreign matter detector.

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▲ Quality Inspection Division ▲ X-ray foreign matter detector


The quality control system- Continue from the previous page (Temporary)

Within our company, we have established a strong production and product inspection
process. This point is further highlighted through our adoption of HACCP (Hazard
Analysis Critical Control Point) and the ISO 9001 to enphasize on production safety
as well as customer satisfaction.

The HACCP certification acquisition
Acquisition date Department Remarks
24/10/2002 Kambara Factory Canned Food
24/10/2002 Kambara Factory Food except the canned Food and Bottling
04/10/2006 Fujikawa Bottling Plant No1 Factory Soft drinks
:Other soft drink(sterilization-a dense stopper-the seal)
04/10/2006 Fujikawa Bottling Plant No.2 Factory Soft drinks
:Other soft drink(sterilization-a dense stopper-the seal)
04/10/2006 Fujikawa Bottling Plant No1 Factory Soft drinks
:Other soft drink(a dense stopper-the seal-sterilization)


What is HACCP ? (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) 
At first, HACCP was developed to secure the safety of space foods in USA in 1960's.

HACCP is a systematic preventive approarch to food safety that addresses physical, chemical
and biological hazards as a means of prevention rather than finished product inspection.
HACCP is used in the food industry to identify potential food safety hazards, so that key actions,
known as critical control point can be taken to reduce or eliminate the risk of the hazards
being realized. The system is used all stages of food production and preparation processes.

This method has gained international recognition and that it is recommended by CODEX
committee that all countries should adapt to this practice. CODEX is a combined medium of
the world health organization(WHO) and the united nations food agriculture organization (FAO).

One of the major advantages to HACCP is that the process helps to identify probable contami-
nation points whthin the production and shipment process. The HACCP method recognize
important management points for checking (the precention, extinction, the decrease to
permissible label) contamination and monitors on each point to detect anomalies within
the whole cycle. In each point, we are able to remedy the problem immediately.

( The above information are from the food circulation of the Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries HP)

ISO Certification acquisition
Acquisition date Department Remarks
11/06/2007 An article standard of drink, deve-
lopment and trust production

Head Office (Drinks Dept/ A Guarantee of quality Dept),
R&D Section2, Fujikawa Bottling Plant, Fujikawa Drink Plant,
YUI Factory
ISO 9001 / JIS Q 9001

What is ISO 9001 ? (The quality management system)
ISO is an international organization for standardization and an international organ of the non-
government having the headquarters in Geneva.

More than 140 contries join and collect world wisdom and then establish the international
standard. ISO 9001 does documentation of a flow of the work to have a management cycle
in a company to achieve customer satisfaction and demands.
It is called "quality mangement system".

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