QS-Report:
Fruit, Vegetables, Potatoes | issue September/2017
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QS-REPORT
Fruit, Vegetables, Potatoes 02/2017
Participation in the QS scheme is open
to all companies worldwide – regardless
of where production is located. To ensure
high levels of food safety given the many
and varied international flows of goods,
it is important to create a consistently
high level of quality assurance across
national borders. The increased interest
in the delivery of QS certified fruit
and vegetables has motivated QS to
define an appropriate way to recognise
GlobalG.A.P. group certification.
Operations holding a GLOBALG.A.P. indi-
vidual certification can already be granted
eligibility to deliver QS goods. Now this
will also be possible for producers with a
GLOBALG.A.P. group certification, the so-
called Option 2. For this, the QS advisory
board has compiled the prerequisites and
additional conditions.
“Around two thirds
of all GLOBALG.A.P. certified producers
Coordinated for greater
food safety
Requirements for the recognition of the
GLOBALG.A.P. group certification named
participate in GLOBALG.A.P. via group
certification. By expanding recognition we
are reaching many businesses and taking
a major step in terms of cross-border food
safety“,
Wilfried Kamphausen
, responsible
at QS for the supply chain Fruit, Vegetables,
Potatoes, emphasises. As is the case with
all recognition procedures, it is a question
of being able to guarantee a practically
equivalent standard in quality assurance of
processes.
International quality assurance on a
comparable level
35 percent of more than 13,300 QS
producers of fruit, vegetables and
potatoes are foreign companies, which
directly participate in the QS scheme
via QS certification or recognition of
another standard, such as GLOBALG.A.P.
In order to avoid costs and efforts for
Dear readers,
the availability of QS certified fruit and vegetables is an
important market factor. Since the GLOBALG.A.P. group
certification is widespread in countries of origin such as Spain,
Italy or overseas and in order to prevent duplicate auditing,
QS has named the necessary requirements for its recognition.
At the same time, we intensify our on-site support abroad. Read
more about it in this report.
The editorial team would be pleased to receive questions and
suggestions on the QS-Report to
presse@q-s.de.
• Editorial
• Coordinated for greater food safety
Requirements for the recognition of the
GLOBALG.A.P. group certification named
• International QS presence
Information events outside Germany planned
• Reichenau-Gemüse eG
High-quality, safe vegetables from Lake Constance
• Data security and usage
Scheme participants can depend on data protection policy
• QS Laboratory Performance Assessment
Constantly growing challenges create added value
• 2018 Revisions
The most important new features at a glance
• News in brief
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Involved stages
System/Standard
Belgium
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Austria
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Transnational
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Fig. 1: Mutual regognition agreements of the QS scheme