Quality

Quality and safety are fundamental for our work. In order to maintain customers’ trust we thoroughly control all the way of the primary products that are to be processed into Karelia Berries products. Requirements specified for the primary products meet European standards of quality. Production facilities of the company are equipped with the most up-to-date technological, production and packing gear. We own an industrial-warehouse complex and vehicle fleet, freezers equipped properly for safe storing and transportation.

Founders and employees of the company live a healthy liestyle. We believe that high quality of our products with null content of any chemical or artificial additives is essential condition for health of our customers and guarantee of the company’s success.It’s not an advertising trick. We process only northern berries that were getting ripe in tough taiga climate and thus imbibed all the favors of nordic nature and vitamins.

We pay specific attention to radiation background control and we don’t purchase berries and mushrooms that grow on lands of Belarus and Ukraine contaminated by radiation. We are not ashamed to supply berries to kindergartens.

Karelia Berries company carefully follows the principles of transparency and process flow. We developed, implemented and work with automatic system of production records. The system allows us to identify the supplier, the date of purchase, the date of freezing, the date of production and the responsible person for each item of production (bag, box, package) using its unique number.
 The system also lets us trace the whole production process — beginning with acceptance of berries and finishing with final delivery to the customer. The system of production records is another way to guarantee the quality of our products.

The company has own certified laboratory that helps to maintain the highest quality of our products by examining and doing research work on materials and our products. Longstanding cooperation with the scientific research laboratory of Michurinsk State Agrarian University gives us a chance to develop and introduce new technologies and innovations into new types of berry products.

Karelia Berries studies innovations and introduces cutting-edge technologies into berries processing. We keen to keep the values presented by nature and let our customer feel them.

IQF berries that are to be supplied are certified and meet the requirements of All-Union State Standards GOST 29187–91. We also developed technical conditions that are based on the above-mentioned standards but they are stricter in sense of the main criteria for defining quality of IQF berries, storage and transportation. We stand for higher quality rates and this fact lets us guarantee the shelf life of the IQF berries that is 18 months since the date of production.

Our fresh berries are certified and completely meet the requirements All-Union State Standards (GOST):

• Cranberry — GOST 19215–73;
• Lingonberry — GOST 20450–75 

The mentioned All-Union State Standards were introduced in 1975. In fact, the berries and requirements upon harvesting didn’t change but the methods of processing and storage of fresh berries have essentially changed. Karelia Berries launched processing line where we clean berries in production volume. We carefully clean lingonberry and cranberry as long as bilberry, blueberry and other berries. They travel across the conveyor belt where they are winnowed, then the berries are deposited into lotic water from Karelian water-well for cleaning, calibrated against size and sorted by color and form with the help of laser, optic and infrared cameras. Packaging in a protective atmosphere allows increasing the shelf life of products.

The products of advanced processing meet the requirements of All-Union State Standards. We control quality using own certified laboratory. In cooperation with the scientific laboratory of Michurinsk State Agrarian University we developed and introduced technical conditions that guarantee longer shelf life of our products.

We cooperate with control organizations and we can offer our unique organically certified products.