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QS – Report 2012
Outlook 2013
QS Database – More than 132,000 users
In 2012, QS again sought an active dialogue with
consumers and an exchange of experiences within
the sector. In spring, the EU-sponsored information
campaign “QS-live. Quality Assurance Initiative”
was introduced at the Fruit Logistica fair. In autumn,
QS made a joint presentation with Fleischprüfring
and QAL at the Central Agricultural Festival (ZLF) in
Munich. With presenting QS-live at the Eat&Style
and Food&Life consumer fair, QS explored new
avenues by allowing consumers to demonstrate
their knowledge of how to handle fresh foods in an
QS in a dialogue...
…
at fairs and events
QS database – service range and functionalities expanded
163
agricultural coordinators
129,751
scheme participants
161
laboratories
1,196
samplers
38
certification bodies
436
auditors
1,565
veterinarians (antibiotics and
salmonella monitoring)
The QS database as the key element of all interactions
contains not only the master data of all scheme
participants but also the results of the independent
audits and monitoring programmes. 129,751 scheme
participants, 163 agricultural coordinators and 436
auditors access the data records just as regularly as
the staff of the 38 certification bodies and 161 QS-
recognised laboratories. The database is updated
constantly in order to guarantee the greatest possible
level of user-friendliness and practicability. Since the
beginning of the year, it has been possible to download
the checklists for the independent audits as Excel
files. This gives auditors the option of completing the
checklists directly at a computer without internet
access and uploading them subsequently back into
the database. This means that manual transfer of
the paper checklist is no longer required. Overview
lists from customers and suppliers which can be
compiled individually offer additional convenience for
scheme participants. Whoever prepares a list of this
kind receives a message automatically if a company
in the list loses its eligibility of delivery. Additional
automated plausibility checks for the entry of
analysis results in feed and residue monitoring have
been set up on top of this.
interactive quality manager game. Together with
Kaiser’s Tengelmann, their trading partner of many
years, QS was represented at the International Green
Week in Berlin in January 2013. In a rally with an
entertaining presenter, more than 2,000 fair visitors
tested their knowledge of all aspects of the QS
scheme.
QS Database
➦
Master data and complete
audit results
➦
Residue monitoring
➦
Feed monitoring
➦
Salmonella monitoring
➦
Antibiotics monitoring
42,313
audit reports (2012)
11,158
analysis results (2012)
385,086
analysis results (2012)
1.72
m analysis results (2012)
22,799
prescriptions (since Apr. 2012)