Built to international standards.
Sasaki Green Tea Company holds FSSC 22000 certification — an internationally recognized food safety management standard that goes beyond domestic requirements and meets the expectations of major beverage and food manufacturers worldwide. We don't treat certification as a box to check: every standard is embedded into daily operations across farming, manufacturing, and shipping.
Quality control through every stage of manufacturing.
Raw Material Intake
Aracha — crude tea steamed and rolled from freshly harvested leaves — undergoes component analysis, pesticide residue testing, and sensory evaluation before final processing. Only materials that pass every criterion are accepted.
Manufacturing Process
All raw materials, machinery and settings, and results from foreign-object and metal detectors are logged as manufacturing records, enabling rapid traceability if any issue arises.
Final Shipment
Before shipment, every lot undergoes X-ray inspection to confirm the absence of foreign objects including metal, stone, glass, and plastic.
Traceable down to the day pesticides were applied.
Our traceability goes far beyond standard lot management. For every batch we record the producer, production date, and production lot; the specific tea garden, cultivar, and harvest date; and for each garden, the name, application volume, and application date of every pesticide and fertilizer used.
Three-Tier Lot Management
- Raw Material Lot
- Producer · Production date · Lot number · Tea garden · Pesticide & fertilizer history
- Processing Lot
- Processing date · Lot number · Machinery used · Settings
- Shipment Lot
- Shipment date · Lot number · Inspection results
Recognized by independent third parties.
From Japan's most prestigious agricultural awards to international taste evaluations, the quality of our fukamushi-cha is judged outside our own walls.
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award
Most wins in Shizuoka Prefecture — 34 times
Emperor's Cup
2020 Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Festival
Grand Gold Medal, National Aracha Finishing Skills Competition
2018, 2024 & 2025
International Taste Institute (ITI) — 3 Stars
11 times in total
Monde Selection — Grand Gold Medal
Three consecutive years