“…According to new legislation, integration of the two sectors is essential for food safety in Turkey. There are many small plants that process a high number of dairy products (Demirbas & Karagozlu, 2008) but these same plants have demonstrated a lack of sufficient technical experience in food safety (Demirbas, Karahan, Kenanoglu, & Karagozlu, 2006). A lot of research exist characterizing food safety implementation in small and medium-sized food manufacturers (Celaya et al, 2007;Route, 2001;Violaris, Bridges, & Bridges, 2008;Walker, Pritchard, & Forsythe, 2003).…”