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The German Food Quality System Brigitta Wolf QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH

The German Food Quality System Brigitta Wolf QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH. Conference „Strategies and Policies to Promote and Manage Food Quality“, Vilnius 21 march 2006. HfM. QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH. Feed industry  Farmers  Meat industry  Processing  Retail  Marketing .

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The German Food Quality System Brigitta Wolf QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH

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  1. The German Food Quality SystemBrigitta WolfQS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH Conference „Strategies and Policies to Promote and Manage Food Quality“, Vilnius 21 march 2006

  2. HfM • QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH • Feed industry Farmers Meat industry Processing Retail Marketing  21. March 2006

  3. Products included start in • porc 2002 • Beef 2002 • Veal 2002 • Poultry 2002 • Fruit, vegetables, potatoes 2004 • Combinable crops 2005 21. March 2006

  4. Current challenges • Legal requirements on Food safety • Growing concentration of retail and industry • Internationalisation of supply chain • Internationalisation of markets • Demand of a standardized quality level • Requirements of banks and insurances 21. March 2006

  5. QS - Key facts • vertical quality assurance system • QS-logo for „closed QS chains“ • process control • independent inspections • central database • crisis management • uniform standard 21. March 2006

  6. Quality assurance - across all stage Farmaudit Consumer Consumer Retail Retail Farmaudit 1 audit 1 auditor 1 appointment Processing Wholesale Slaughtering/Deboning QualityManagement Milk Beef, Porc, Poultry Fruit, Vegetables, Potatoes Combinablecrops Feed industry 21. March 2006

  7. Essential characteristics of the QS system • Main goal is Feed and Food safety • Compliance with legal requirements EU-Foodlaw, Hygiene regulations, animal protection etc.(e.g. EU reg. 178/2002, 852-854/2004, 183/2005) • Extra legal requirements within the QS systeme.g.- Salmonellae monitoring- Positivlist for feed ingredients- Residue monitoring 21. March 2006

  8. Essential characteristics of the QS system • Products are produced and marketed under well defined criteria • special criteria for every process step (QS-guidelines) • The participating companies commit to establish a traceable documentation and internal control • transparency of every process step • Independent audits assure compliance of the QS-criteria (EN 45011) • administration of the audit results in a central database • sanctions in case of violation • Participation on a contractual basis • System and sanction contract • System participant use the QS-Logo • Communication to the consumer 21. March 2006

  9. Control levels QS 21. March 2006

  10. QS audits in the meat sector • In January 2006 QS conducted 100.000 Audit. 21. March 2006

  11. QS - Key data • 145.000 slaughtered QS-pigs daily • 150 QS-Audits daily • 4.200 controlled QS-criteria daily • 170 correcting measures daily • 3.200 QS-Salmonella antibody tests daily 21. March 2006

  12. Participation in the QS system - meat and meat products (1.3.2006) Approved certification bodies: 38 Auditors: 388 21. March 2006

  13. QS system partner in Europe(1.3.2006) Slaughtering/Deboning 22 Denmark 1 Italy 4 Luxemburg 2 Nederland 6 Austria 5 Poland 2 Hungary 2 Feed 196 Belgium 21 Denmark 3 France 11 UK 4 Italy 4 Luxemburg 4 Nederland 112 Austria 15 Poland 10 Switzerland 1 Hungary 11 Processing 4 Italy 1 Nederland 2 Belgium 1 Total 222 companies (Farming excluded) 21. March 2006

  14. Participation in the QS systemFresh fruit, vegetables, potatoes (1.3.2006) Approved certification bodies : 22 Auditors: 134 21. March 2006

  15. Distribution QS meat and meat products:more than 10.400 Outlets (1.3.2006) 21. March 2006

  16. Integration and Efficiency Common Plattform, European Meat Alliance - EMA(NL, B, DK, D) Common Standards, Int. Feed Safety Alliance - IFSA (NL, B, GB, D) Mutual recognition (in Europe) e.g. GMP(B), GMP+(NL), DS(DK), IKB(NL) QS System Recognition of audits (IFS) Benchmarking, EurepGAP  QS-Gap Integration of regional programmes in Germany e.g. Geprüfte Qualität Farmaudit  Agriculture Private-Public-Partnership 21. March 2006

  17. Agreements between QS and foreign partners 13.02.2006) 21. March 2006

  18. Ongoing negociations for mutual recognition (13.02.2006) 21. March 2006

  19. all information regarding the QS-System: www.q-s.info • guidelines and checklists • approved cb´s • QS certified companies • information on QS 21. March 2006

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