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QS Insights | ANUGA
2015
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Number of scheme participants
increases
The growth in the number of participants is
particularly strong in the cattle farming seg-
ment. The number of scheme participants
in the area of slaughtering and deboning
has also grown significantly. The number
of foreign businesses among QS scheme
participants in themeat andmeat products
sector accounts for 10 percent of the total.
109,104
partners from 21 countries
are part of
the
meat and meat product supply chain
.
1.
Feed producers
• Plant protection
• Storage
• Limit value
• Documentation
5.
Food retail
• Labelling
• Best-before date and
use-by date
• Consumer information
• Storage
• Accompanying
documents
Safe food from
farm to shop
From livestock farming to processing
and retail, scheme participants fulfil the
requirements of the QS scheme.
This includes the following aspects:
68
QS approved laboratories
perform tests
as part of the
QS feed monitoring programme
.
31,984
audits
were carried
out in the
meat and meat product
supply chain
in 2014.
1
Further 373 businesses eligible to deliver due to GMP+ certification
2
Including 69 additive and premix production
3
Including 511 mobile feed milling and mixing plants
4
Further 4,332 businesses eligible to deliver due to GMP+ certification
5
Further 38,285 businesses eligible to deliver slaughter cows due to QM-milk auditing
6
Further 8,749 QSG businesses (DK) and 2,305 Certus businesses (B) eligible to deliver due
to bilateral agreements
7
Including 104 butchery businesses
8
Including 143 meat wholesale companies
381
auditors
and
25 certification
bodies
are approved for the
supply chain meat and meat products
.
23,408
food retail branches
offer meat and meat
products labelled with the QS certification mark.
4,430
192
23
18
213
1,877
93
98,424
235
51
5
27
15
2
2,146
1,318
7
348
1
Stage
Total
Germany
Other
countries
109,104
98,424
10,680
Feed sector
– feed material production
1,2
– compound feed production
3
– trade, transport, storage
4
3,677
1,146
1,235
1,296
3,016
967
920
1,129
661
179
315
167
Agricultural production
– cattle farming
5
– pig farming
6
– poultry farming/hatcheries
79,263
35,383
39,189
4,691
69,981
33,642
33,372
2,967
9,282
1,741
5,817
1,724
Livestock transport
1,900
1,609
291
Slaughtering/deboning
456
349
107
Processing
7
400
377
23
Food retail
8
23,408
23,092
316
Supply chain meat and meat products
Number of scheme participants
Updated 1 July 2015