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Industry Standards

This is a list of Industry Standards and Good Practices. Use the Area of Application and Location filters to narrow your results.

• QS Scheme

   

  • Area of Application

    Food, Testing, Quality and Certification Procedures

  • Location

    International

  • Description

    The QS scheme is a cross-stage scheme of quality assurance for fresh food. It provides...moreThe QS scheme is a cross-stage scheme of quality assurance for fresh food. It provides comprehensive process assurance and traceability that comprises all relevant stages of production and marketing of food: from production to processing to marketing, in other words from farm to shop. From farm to shop QS knows every company that is involved in the products’ production and marketing. The compliance with the QS requirements is checked regularly. Checklists and shipping documents, which allow a conclusion on the production process and the origin, accompany the product to the shop. Thus, the entire production process is made transparent and ensures a high degree of reliability.
    
    The QS scheme defines and controls stringent production and marketing requirements along the entire supply chain for fresh foods. Only foods that are produced and marketed according to the QS requirements at all stages, bear the QS certification mark.
    Quality assurance in the QS scheme is based on three interacting inspection levels:
    Self-assessment by company: At this level, the companies themselves ensure that they reliably monitor and conscientiously document all the stipulated requirements. QS supports them in this endeavour with clearly defined requirements and practice-oriented guidelines and checklists.
    Independent inspection: During the independent inspection, trained auditors inspect both the production and marketing processes on site as well as the documentation of these processes. In addition, the companies participating in the QS scheme take part in various monitoring programs, which allows detection and assessment of potential risks to food safety at an early stage.
    Inspecting the inspectors: As part of the scheme integrity system (SIKS), QS ensures that quality assurance from farm to shop functions flawlessly. This process also involves monitoring of the work of the auditors.`

  • Link to Standard

    https://www.q-s.de/home-gb.html

  • Act/Regulation

    • QS Scheme

• FAMI-QS

   

  • Area of Application

    Food, Testing, Quality and Certification Procedures

  • Location

    International

  • Description

    FAMI-QS is the Quality and Safety System for Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures. Since...moreFAMI-QS is the Quality and Safety System for Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures. Since 2004, representatives of the above-mentioned Industry have worked together to devise FAMI-QS, the first code aimed at this sector of the animal feed business.
    
    The FAMI-QS Code addresses safety, quality and regulatory compliance of specialty feed ingredients and their mixtures by:
    
    minimizing the risk that unsafe specialty feed ingredients and their mixtures enter the feed and food chain;
    enabling an operator to implement the objectives of the Feed Hygiene Regulation (183/2005/EC);
    and providing measures to ensure that other feed safety regulatory requirements are met.
    
    FAMI-QS is a pioneer in its field as it is the only certifiable code specifically aimed at specialty feed ingredients and their mixtures. It was also the first Community Guide to Good Practice to obtain official recognition from the European Commission as foreseen in the Feed Hygiene Regulation.
    The FAMI-QS code is designed for international validity; thus, participants in FAMI-QS can be found all over the world. Today, certified companies are spread across more than 47 countries. Furthermore, we have a worldwide network of certification bodies which allows the implementation of FAMI-QS in any part of the globe.
    
    FAMI-QS is the Gateway for Feed manufacturers to sell their feed in Europe and USA, where the demand is increasing day by day.
    
    FAMI-QS is
    
    • Exclusive Program for feed industry
    • Registered in Community register of feed additives EC 1831/2003
    • Client to register directly with FAMI QS website
    • Applications of HACCP principles
    • Important standard to get access to European Market
    
    
    The requirements of the Code meet all legislative requirements in the EU. FAMI-QS was recognized by the European Authorities as the official Guide to Good Practice, and this official recognition was published in the EU Official Journal in January 2007. Companies certified with the FAMI-QS code can demonstrate compliance with the EC Regulation 183/2008. Certification process is running under a worldwide network of independent and accredited Certification Bodies and qualified assessors, in safeguard of Transparency and Impartiality in the whole certification process. A FAMI-QS certified operator can demonstrate compliance with the feed safety EU regulation and gain access to the European market

  • Link to Standard

    http://www.fami-qs.org/

  • Act/Regulation

    • FAMI-QS

• GMP+

   

  • Area of Application

    Food, Testing, Quality and Certification Procedures

  • Location

    International

  • Description

    GMP stands for voor Good Manufacturing Practices. In 1992 the current GMP+ Feed Certification...moreGMP stands for voor Good Manufacturing Practices. In 1992 the current GMP+ Feed Certification scheme started out with this. Afterwards, it developed into a full-fledged certification scheme by integrating ISO quality management requirements, HACCP and other elements.
    
    The + stands for the integration of HACCP: ‘Hazards Analysis and Critical Control Points’. The foundation of the GMP+ systematic is partly determined by continuous improvement according to the principle of the Deming circle ‘Plan, Do, Check, Act’: write down what I’m doing, do what I’ve written down and providing proof that I effectively did it.
    
    The GMP+ Feed Certification scheme does not only define conditions relating to production facilities of feed, but also for storage, transport, staff, procedures, documentation etc. Together with her partners, GMP+ international transparently defines clear conditions, so that feed safety and sustainability are guaranteed and certification bodies can conduct independent audits. GMP+ certified companies are supported with useful and practical information, such as various databases, newsletters, Q&A lists, courses and seminars.
    
    With over 13,400 participating companies in more than 70 countries, GMP+ International is a leading global player in the market of feed safety assurance certification. A GMP+ certificate provides an additional qualitative guarantee for every entrepreneur dealing with the international feed industry.
    
    A quality mark of GMP+ International tells you, the entrepreneur, that participating companies from the international food chain guarantee reliability, quality, sustainability and safety. That means that they meet all local and international statutory standards in the feed industry.

  • Link to Standard

    https://www.gmpplus.org/pagina/288/home_un.aspx

  • Act/Regulation