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The chapter summarizes the current food quality systems in Turkey from the perspective of food defense. Recently Turkey has formally adopted a number of typical elements of food safety regulations and control systems in the accession period to EU and there are developments dealing with food safety and a few available empirical analyses of food safety applications in Turkey, but still there is a lack of comprehensive study summarizing the efforts. The developments that signal some of the more formal approaches to deal with food defense are shared and a few examples of food safety applications in Turkey are mentioned together with discussing issues about food quality. The policies supported for food safety and security, current situation, related legislations are used to provide information as current indicators. On the other hand food defense is a vital and relevantly “hot” topic as all societies are crucially dependent upon the food supply; therefore, its disruption is an obvious prime target for terrorism.
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ITU refers to Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) in Turkish and the ITU standards are regulated by Turkish legislation and it could be called as TurkishGAP.
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Detailed information about TPI is available in the Web Page in both English and Turkish (http://www.turkpatent.org.tr)
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GIs covers both PDO and PGI according to the Turkish legislation.
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The exemption was published in Organic Food Law (No: 5262) dated December 3, 2004.
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DIS is 10.00 TL/da in 2008. Additional payments soil analysis and organic farming are 1.00 TL/da and 3.00 TL/da, respectively. 1.70 TL = US$1.00
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The first three parts of this chapter was quoted from the initial report of Food Quality Assurance Schemes in the Candidate Countries: Turkey (FQAS-TURK) Project executed by the authors. The project was funded by EC Joint Research Centre — The Institutes for Prospective Technological Studies in Seville (Contract Number: 151089-2008 A08-TK, 2008).
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Alpas, H., Aşci, S., Koç, A.A. (2010). Food Quality Systems in Turkey: Perspectives in Terms of Food Defence. In: Koukouliou, V., Ujevic, M., Premstaller, O. (eds) Threats to Food and Water Chain Infrastructure. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3546-2_3
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