At the beginning of January 2024, the QS Academy organized an online seminar for system partners from the meat industry on the updated requirements in the QS guidelines. The seminar QS revisions 2024 – Implement new requirements correctly
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Potassium nitrite (E 249), sodium nitrite (E 250), sodium nitrate (E 251) and potassium nitrate (E 252) are additives that have been used as preservatives for many decades. These salts are traditionally used to cure meat and other perishable products...
More than 160.000 companies in the QS system for meat and meat products. QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH (QS) is starting the year 160.134 with 37.095 QS-approved businesses in the meat and meat products sector and 2021 scheme participants for fruit, vegetables and potatoes ...
In the online seminarImplement corona protective measures correctly
At the QS Academy, the experts place particular emphasis on the identification of infection routes and the restructuring of workplaces in order to be able to keep minimum distances ...
The operations in QS certified companies must be transparent and accessible at all times. That is the requirement that the QS test system sets for itself and its system partners. Therefore, sample audits will also take place in QS-certified companies this year - from mid-June to the end of November. The costs of these random checks are borne by QS ...
The bacteria of the genus Salmonella are widespread in nature and are mostly transmitted from animals to humans, especially through the consumption of animal foods. The assumption persists that mayonnaise is a common source of salmonella pathogens ...
A few new cases of Listeria contamination from the meat industry became known over the weekend. At the end of 2019 the problems had already accumulated ...
Overall, food in Germany is only contaminated with very small amounts of so-called agrochemicals, according to the short summary of the national report "Plant protection product residues in food 2018", which the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has now published ...
Farms keeping pigs can use the QS audit indices for biosafety (BSI) and animal husbandry (THI) to demonstrate their care and risk prevention to the veterinary authorities. The EU Control Regulation 2017/625, which has been in force since December 14, 2019, stipulates that veterinary offices should use all the information that is submitted to them for the risk assessment of companies ...
Wilke, Fleisch-Krone, Fleischerei Lay, Fleischerei Eckhoff. They all have something in common - Listeria samples have been found here in recent weeks - the result was partial shutdown of the production up to the complete, permanent closure of the production and company ...
Around every third mandatory inspection in food companies fails because the authorities have a blatant lack of personnel. This is confirmed by research by the consumer organization foodwatch. Accordingly, only about ten percent of the approximately 400 control offices are able to meet their specified target in the inspection of businesses ...