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QS – Report 2012
Outlook 2013
Taking the initiative together
Every day in food retail outlets, we are pleased to give
interested consumers answers to questions on the quality,
safety and origin of our food. It is of benefit here that we can
rely on quality assurance all along the supply chain. All of the
responsible persons in the businesses involved in the food
chain have to assure quality and safety on a daily basis.
When it comes to social issues, the entire chain – from
agriculture to the food retail sector – is responsible. Together
we should establish practicable solutions in order to find
the right way to the advantage of the consumer and the
industry. The QS scheme offers the unique opportunity to
hold discussions on an equal footing with everyone involved
in the food chain. We should also use this platform in the
future to coordinate and align socially relevant topics. We have
already succeeded in doing this in an exemplary way with the
coordination platform to renounce piglet castration. The sector
initiatives on animal welfare in pig and poultry production are
also coordinated and supported by QS.
QS assists the economic operators in implementing legal
measures specifically and in a practical manner. Examples
of this are antibiotics monitoring, which was implemented
last year, and salmonella monitoring which has been running
successfully for ten years now. We will have to remain active
in the future too if we are to bring the risks that exist all along
the chain under the proper control.
In the interest of those involved in the industry, cooperation
with state bodies makes good sense and is necessary at some
points. In doing so, however, we must always bear one thing
in mind: the data of QS scheme participants must always be
handled responsibly and with trust.
Markus Mosa
Markus Mosa
Chairman of the Shareholders’ Meeting
and Curatorship of
QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH