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INFO LETTER
Fruit, vegetables and potatoes
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Issue: 03/2013
Quality Assurance.
From farm to shop.
At trade fairs and consumer exhibitions, QS
and its partners regularly provide informa-
tion on quality assurance from farm to shop.
For instance at Consumenta, in Nuremberg
at the start of November 2013. QS-live am-
bassadors spearheaded the communication
with consumers.
Consumenta is Bavaria’s largest consumer
goods exhibition. This year around 161,000
visitors viewed the wares of almost 1,000 ex-
hibitors. A particularly powerful visitor magnet
was the “From the Region - for the Region”
hall, where QS was represented along with
its partners QAL (QAL Gesellschaft für Qual-
itätssicherung in der Agrar und Lebensmittel-
wirtschaft mbH) and LQB (Landwirtschaftliche
Qualitätssicherung Bayern GmbH). The com-
munal stand’s tagline was “trust in safe food
of controlled origin”. QS-live ambassador Lore
Mauler and QS employees were on hand to
field consumers’ questions. They explained to
the visitors what scheme participants achieve
in terms of food safety and what consumers
themselves should be aware of once they’ve
done the shopping.
New QS-live ambassador
While Lore Mauler has been a QS-live ambas-
sador from the very beginning, Patrick Grevenig
from EDEKA Frischecenter Zurheide in Dusseldorf
was only recently appointed a QS-live ambassa-
dor. He won the final of the Grips&Co competi-
tion “Germany’s best newcomer in trade”, which
was supported by QS-live and originally created
for the food trade by the journal RUNDSCHAU. As
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With the logistics standard, QS has this year
started offering a guideline for the transporta-
tion of fresh fruit and vegetables. It is applicable
in particular to logistics service providers who
carry out transportation in the QS scheme. As
recent figures show, 37 companies have signed
up to the standard so far.
SCHEME PARTICIPANTS AND MARKETS
THE LATEST FIGURES
Marketing
QS-LIVE IN DIALOGUE WITH CONSUMERS
a result the 20-year old was made a QS-live am-
bassador for the next 12 months by QS Managing
Director Dr Hermann-Josef Nienhoff.
Scheme participants in the chain,
Fruit, Vegetables, Potatoes
Total
28,724
of which outside Germany
5,400
Production
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- Fruit, vegetables
- Potatoes
13,264
10,594
2,670
4,950
4,922
28
Wholesale
783
243
Logistics
37
7
Food retail
14,640
200
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of which:
Producers with QS GAP certification: 6,684, producers with recognised GlobalG.A.P. certification: 3,017
Producers with recognised IKKB certification: 2,272 producers with recognised AMAG.A.P. certification: 122
As of 1 Oct 2013
Welcome
We are pleased to welcome a
new collegue. Jutta Haski joined
the call centre team in Septem-
ber. She will be glad to help you if
there are any questions you want
to ask QS.
Congratulations
Heike Faßbender and Ute Simon have now been
at QS for ten years. Colleagues have been con-
gratulating them since October and August re-
spectively.
QS at Fruit Logisitca
QS will be represent-
ed at Fruit Logistica
onceagainnextyear.
QS experts will be
manning the stand and fielding questions from 5
to 7 February. What‘s special this year is that QS
Fachgesellschaft Obst-Gemüse-Kartoffeln GmbH
will be celebrating its tenth anniversary.
Ufen succeeds Schulz
As previously announced, Gerhard Schulz left
his post as chairman of the Federal Committee
for Fruit and Vegetables in October 2013 and
is thus no longer a member of advisory board.
Schulz played a central role in the founding and
development of the QS scheme for fruit, veg-
etables and potatoes. His successor as chair-
man of the horticulture specialist group in the
Federal Committee for Fruit and Vegetables is
Christian Ufen.
IMPRINT
QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH
Dr. Hermann-Josef Nienhoff (responsible)
Schedestraße 1-3, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Tel.:
+49 (0) 228 35068-0
Fax:
+49 (0) 228 35068-10
E-Mail:
Internet:
Picture credits: QS archive, QS-live, Fotolia,
OPST Obst Partner Steier-
mark GmbH
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New QS-live ambassador Patrick Grevenig,
EDEKA Zurheide (2 from left)
Jutta Haski
Heike Faßbender, Ute Simon
