MONITORING-
REPORT
Feed Sector
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Edition 2014
Parameters under
the microscope
Page 2/3
Feed monitoring
on farms
Page 3
Facts, figures
and background
information
Page 4
A GOOD INVESTMENT WITH CERTAINTY
Feed Monitoring in the QS scheme
TESTS IN DETAIL
GOOD GRADES FOR QS
SCHEME PARTICIPANTS
Since 2008, QS scheme participants have drawn more than
122,000 feed samples and conducted at least 1.6 million
individual analyses. The analysis results have been eva-
luated to their full extent for the first time for this Feed
Monitoring Report 2014. A transgression rate of not quite
0.5 % in the past seven years confirms the consistent qua-
lity assurance of the economic operators.
In the QS scheme, every business that produces or trades
in feed is obliged to participate in feed monitoring. Accor-
ding to the latest figures, this affects roughly 3,600 com-
pound feed and feed material producers and almost
50,000 agricultural businesses which mix their own feed.
They are all aware of their responsibility for perfect feed
and they invest a lot of money in the monitoring of feed
safety. An average of 5 million euros is spent every year
for the analyses initiated by the QS scheme alone – and
that pays dividends to everyone involved.
PERFECT FEEDS ARE THE BASIS
OF SAFE FOOD
Being a QS scheme participant means working hand-in-
hand with others, from feed producers through all stages
of livestock farming and meat production to the shop
counter. Everyone can rely on the work of everyone else
here. This principle is reflected again in feed companies
where they form a separate chain of consecutive respon-
sibility stages in which the produce is transported again
and again and often stored in between. With each of these
interim stages, the risk of potential contamination increa-
ses along with the responsibility of each individual for per-
fect feed.
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The QS scheme participants are fully “committed to the
cause”: over 120,000 samples have been analysed within
the framework of feed monitoring since 2008. And the re-
sults show that scheme participants do good work – no va-
lues were measured in just under 71,000 cases; in other
words, no undesirable substances were detected. Although
roughly 51,000 samples did show a result, the measured
values were below the stipulated limit values. Only 570
samples showed values that exceeded the guidance value,
“intervention level” value or maximum concentration level.
This is equivalent to a mere 0.5 % of all samples. What is
the breakdown of values that exceeded stipulated limits?
The intervention level value was exceeded in 7 of the 570
critical samples. 125 of the 570 samples exceeded the sta-
tutory maximum level, and the guidance value, which is
below the statutory maximum level and applies to selected
substances (such as aflatoxin B1), was exceeded in 438 of
the 570 samples.
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570
51,380
70,897
M
No measurement values measured value beyond set limits
Results of the analysis:
only 570 samples beyond set limits
The various products have to be sampled at different in-
tervals: the more a raw material is used or a feed produ-
ced, the more frequently they have to be examined in QS
Monitoring. On top of this, some raw materials and feeds
are classified as especially critical. An example of this is
corn and processed corn products from certain countries,
as well as oils and fats. The inspection frequency is much
higher for these feeds than for other feedstuffs. A separate
evaluation of these hot spots is contained in the inner
section of the report.
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Corn
Milk performance feed
Wheat
Complete feed
for fattening pigs
Complete feed
for laying hens
Rapeseed meal
Own farm-mixture
for fattening pigs
Rape seed expeller
Beer draff
Barley
13,640
8,149
6,723
6,200
4,630
3,357
3,099
3,073
2,934
2,308
Feed/
Raw material
Number of samples
FEED
Detailed evaluations, interesting
facts and background information
for practitioners – this issue of the
Feed Monitoring Report provides an
overview of seven years of QS feed
monitoring. The removable poster
gives information on undesired
substances and the feeds in which
they were most frequently detected.
We wish you interesting reading!
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