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INFO LETTER
Meat and meat products
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Issue: 03/2013
Quality Assurance.
From farm to shop.
Welcome
We are pleased
to
welcome
new colleagues:
in September,
Ms. Jutta Haski
joined
the
sw i t chb oa r d
team. She will
be happy to assist you with any questions you may
have about QS. Since October, Mr. Henning Ossen-
dorf has been providing support in the areas of
slaughtering/deboning and processing/food retail.
Congratulations
Ms. Heike Fassbender and Ms. Ute Simon have
now been working
for QS for ten years
as of September and
October, respective-
ly. Their colleagues
congratulate them
and wish them all
the best.
Feed: over 1,000,000 analyses
Helping to make food safer: since QS feed moni-
toring was introduced, samplers have taken more
than 100,000 samples. These were analysed by
QS-approved laboratories and more than one mil-
lion test results have been entered in the QS data-
base. (Figure valid as of October 2013).
SCHEME PARTICIPANTS AND MARKETS
THE LATEST FIGURES
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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Almost 105,000 participants in the QS scheme
are committed to ensuring the safety and qual-
ity of food – from the farm to the shop counter.
In comparison with last year, this figure has re-
mained at approximately the same level.
Numbers increased in poultry farming. At the
end of September, we counted 4,134 locations
(an increase of 2.1%). While the number of loca-
tions has decreased again for pig farming (down
4.4%), it has stayed approximately the same for
cattle farms (up 0.9%).
When we look at scheme participants abroad,
we can also see an increase in the numbers tak-
ing part (up 2.5%).
1. Further 314 businesses eligible to deliver due GMP certification 2. Including 63 additive and premix producers
3. Including 514 mobile feed milling and mixing plants 4. Further 3,739 businesses eligible to deliver due to GMP certification
5. Further 34,950 businesses eligible to deliver slaughter cows due to QM milk auditing
6. Further 7,328 QSG businesses (DK) and 2,175 Certus businesses (B) with eligibility of delivery due to bilateral agreements
7. Further 14 QSG businesses (DK) and 43 Certus businesses (B) with eligibility of delivery due to bilateral agreements
8. Further 73 butchery businesses eligible to deliver 9. Including 143 meat wholesale businesses
As of: 1 October 2013
Scheme participants in the Supply
Chain Meat and Meat Products
Total9
104,563
Of which abroad
7,784
Feed
- Feed material production
1,2
- Compound feed production3
- Trade, transport, storage
4
3,684
1,159
1,356
1,169
515
131
298
86
Agriculture
- Cattle farming
5
- Pig farming
6
- Poultry production
75,006
30,790
40,082
4,134
6,738
1
5,253
1,484
Livestock transport
1,759
142
Slaughtering/ Deboning
7
408
62
Processing
8
255
11
Food retail
9
23,451
316
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
INCREASING PRODUCT AVAILABILITY AND FURTHER DEVELOPING STANDARDS
We all need to be able to rely on guaranteed
origins of beef and pork, even when it is pur-
chased from other countries. QS is actively
involved in ensuring that this is possible
and has agreed on recognitions with AMA
Marketing in Austria for the supply of cattle
and with Bord Bia in Ireland for the supply
of beef. There are also recognitions for pork:
the cooperation with Belpork and the Certus
scheme were recently renewed.
“The demand for beef with the QS certification
mark has increased considerably in the past
couple of years”, explains QS Managing Director
Dr. Hermann-Josef Nienhoff. “The agreements
with AMA Marketing and Bord Bia help us to
meet this demand. At the same time, they rep-
resent a step towards comparable Europe-wide
quality assurance”, continues Nienhoff.
Effective immediately, cattle farmers who take
part in the Austrian AMA quality seal programme
are eligible to deliver goods into the QS scheme
– without an additional QS audit. The farms with
eligibility to deliver are reported via AMA and
then registered in the QS database. With regard
to Irish beef: the abattoirs certified by Bord Bia
can also deliver into the QS scheme after regis-
tration in the database.
Extending the cooperation with
Belpork
has
become something of a tradition. It means that
pork and sow meat from the Certus system
can continue to be delivered into the QS
scheme beyond 2013.
AMA recognition confirmed at the ANUGA (the
photo shows Dr. Hermann-Josef Nienhoff [QS]
and Dr. Michael Blass [AMA Marketing])
Jutta Haski, Henning Ossendorf
UteSimon, Heike Faßbender
IMPRINT
QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH
Dr. Hermann-Josef Nienhoff (responsible)
Schedestrasse 1-3, 53113 Bonn
Tel:
+49 (0) 228 35068-0
Fax:
+49 (0) 228 35068-10
E-mail:
info@q-s.de
Internet:
www.q-s.de/home_gb.html
Picture credits: QS archive, Fotolia, QS-live,
Metro AG, ZDG
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