Quality Management

Green tea leaf
Green tea leaf

Aiming to create safe and reliable products

As a company dealing with food, ITO EN positions quality control as an important matter for its corporate survival. We have established a rigorous quality control system to ensure product safety from product design, raw ingredients / materials and packaging to manufacturing and distribution.

Providing Smiles to Customers with Safe and Delicious Products

Raw Ingredients

Beverage raw ingredients

Beverage raw ingredients

  • Sensory testing (shape, color and shine, aroma, water color testing)
  • Microorganism testing
  • Scientific testing (constituent analysis, etc.)
  • Agrochemical residue testing
  • Radioactive substance testing
Water

Water

  • Water quality testing
  • Radioactive substance testing

Products

Tests conducted by ITO EN and outsourced production plants

Tests conducted by ITO EN and outsourced
production plants

  • Sensory testing (shape, color and shine, aroma, water color testing)
  • Microorganism testing
  • Scientific testing (constituent analysis, etc.)
  • Radioactive substance testing

Because We Drink Tea Every Day Quality Control System

ITO EN does not use tea leaves of unknown provenance. ITO EN works with tea farmers to ensure we understand their growing methods. It can do this because ITO EN is all about tea.

Further, with Oi Ocha, ITO EN has established a mechanism for grasping everything from finished product to manufacturing plants, from production date, to raw materiales and to how the tea leaves are cultivated.

This mechanism for tracking production history is called "Traceability".

Oi Ocha produced under this end-to-end management process is tested daily by quality managers using the latest equipment, as well as through sensory testing of qualities such as flavor and aroma that cannot be determined by machine.

Because We Drink Tea Every Day Quality Control System
  • 01

    Tea farmers

    Pledge concerning proper use of pesticides

    Information about tea leaves cultivated, cultivation records

  • 02

    Crude tea factory

    Pledge concerning the safety of crude tea, safety guarantee

    List of pesticides used for each raw material leaf tea

    Crude tea production control records

    Agricultural producer information

  • 03

    Tea wholesalers and brokers

    Pledge concerning the safety of the tea we sell

    Crude tea factory information

  • 04

    Tea final processing factory

    Records of processing crude tea into beverage raw materials

  • 05

    Beverage Factory

    Records of manufacturing green tea beverages from beverage raw materials/tea leaves

  • 06

    Retail Stores

  • 07

    Consumer

Ensuring Safety and Security in Product Manufacture

The ITO EN Group has established polices on procurement and quality management, and is working in collaboration with its stakeholders (including outsourced beverage producers) to establish a supply framework that pays due care and consideration to both environmental and social aspects.

Our procurement policy sets guidelines for the pursuit of quality, safety and peace of mind, fairness in procurement and consideration for human rights, labor and the environment. Our quality management policy dictates rules for the provision of safe and reliable products, compliance with applicable laws and ordinances and for ensuring safety of products utilizing international standards. On the quality management front, we have acquired international certifications such as ISO9001 for quality control and quality assurance and FSSC22000 for food safety at our beverage and leaf manufacturing factories in Japan, and have established and are operating a quality control system in line with relevant laws and guidelines.

* NO.RO19-FSSC22000: Green tea firing and small-size packaging, barley teabag packaging, instant green tea, barley tea and powdered seaweed tea, powder processed food small-size packaging, coffee roasting and packaging, and matcha grinding and packaging

Our products are only manufactured in factories that satisfy ITO EN quality management standards, and we thoroughly ensure safety and security in the manufacture of our products by holding regular quality assurance meetings.

NO.3772-ISO9001 NO.E2053-ISO14001

NO.3772-ISO9001

NO.E2053-ISO14001

NO.R019-FSSC22000

NO.R019-FSSC22000

ITO EN Shizuoka Sagara Factory

ITO EN Shizuoka Sagara Factory

Contract Beverage Production Factories

Contract Beverage Production Factories