Introduction　

　　When an strawberry is put into your mouth, have you ever considered how it comes? Before discussing this, let’s make an experiment.
Drop an egg from the position in front of you, what will happen? It breaks, of course. But how can we make it reach the floor safe and sound?
Your answers may be:
　　To lay a piece of carpet on the floor.
　　To wrap the egg with polyfoam.
……
　　You may be able to find out more methods.
　　Now let’s come back to the strawberry in our hand. It looks so clean, so charming, so beautiful and tastes so sweet and luscious. But do you know that it experiences a lot before coming to your hand?
　　From being a seedling to a ripe fruit, from material purchasing to production, from packing to transportation, when it comes to your hands, it has experienced so many procedures. During these procedures, it is so likely to be damaged, contaminated. Just like that egg.
　　But actually the strawberry in your hand is so nice and tastes so good. The egg can be unbroken via certain methods. In the same way, IQF strawberry can also be protected before it reaches your hands.
Of course the method is not only applicable for strawberry. What you eat is not only strawberry.
　　Let’s find out the factors that influence strawberry just as we know the factors that affect the egg.
　　Firstly, analysis on resources:
1) Harmful factors that are related to material such as pesticide residue, heavy metals, etc.
2) Harmful factors that are related to processing/production such as cross contamination, incomplete disinfection and so on.
　　Secondly,analysis on product characteristics:
1) Microbiological harm: bacteria, virus, parasite, mould, yeast, etc.
2) Chemical harm: pesticide residue, additive, fertilizer, etc.
3) Physical harm: foreign objects such as glass, hair, plastic, metal, sediment, etc.

Quality control details:

Introduction
Planting
Pesticide & fertilizer
Raw material sourcing
Processing
Storage & delivery

Pesticide & fertilizer

Raw material sourcing