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Dear Readers,
As a scheme participant within the QS scheme, your experiences and insights are of great value to us. After all, who is better qualified to assess what is appropriate and necessary for ensuring a safe feed and food supply chain than professionals from the feed sector? For this reason, we invite you to actively contribute to shaping our guidelines—the core of the QS scheme —and to provide us with feedback throughout the year.
Whether it’s guidelines, new requirements in the transportation sector, or support from digital tools, QS focuses on clarity, practicality, continuous improvement, and providing the best possible support to its scheme participants.
Stay up to date with QS!
Best regards,
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Alexander Hinrichs
What matters to you:
Comment on guidelines throughout the yearQS regularly reviews how the certification scheme can be made more streamlined, clearer and more efficient for its system participants. Therefore, the guidelines are typically revised once a year. Effective immediately, comments can be submitted year-round at any time, rather than only during a brief period in the fall. To do so, there is a button located below each guideline in the Document Center on the QS website that leads directly to the online form. Here, you can easily send us your specific feedback. Every piece of feedback is reviewed and responded to by QS.
Disclaimer: Please use the online form to submit your feedback and be as specific as possible when referring to the relevant guideline, chapter and section. |
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New QS certification for road transport charterersWith the introduction of the certification for road transport charterers, QS has expanded its scope of application effective January 1, 2026. Road transport charterers act as intermediaries and organize the transport of feed on behalf of third parties. They are neither the owners of the products nor of the means of transport. A transition period is currently still in effect. Starting January 1, 2027, road transport charterers must be QS-certified to deliver into the system if they are commissioned by feed producers and traders to organize transports. In this way, QS enhances transparency and safety throughout the supply chain.
The requirements for road transport charterer can be found in the Guideline Feed Sector. |
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Did you know?
QS‑EasyPlan Feed: Planning made easy digitallyFor many years now, QS-EasyPlan Feed has provided feed companies with a practical online tool that significantly simplifies the creation of QS-compliant control plans for feed monitoring. Instead of time-consuming manual compilation, the required control plans are generated digitally, and tailored to each specific location - simply, quickly and precisely. The tool provides targeted support for planning QS Feed Monitoring and helps efficiently implement requirements. It’s worth taking a look - for anyone who wants to make their planning more structured and time-efficient.
Click here to access QS-EasyPlan Feed. |
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Why does QS do that?
Laboratory performance under reviewTrust is good, but control is better: Even laboratories in the QS scheme are regularly checked. Only laboratories that have successfully completed a comprehensive approval procedure are permitted to conduct feed analyses for QS. To ensure consistently high and comparable quality, they also participate in annual laboratory performance assessments. Once a year, QS specifically assesses the analytical competence of the laboratories involved in feed monitoring. In 2025, a total of 47 QS-approved laboratories from eight European countries took on this analytical challenge—the test focused on the mycotoxin analysis.
You can find an overview of the laboratory performance assessment here (only available in german). |
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