The Tönnies group of companies is taking over two locations of the Vion Food Group. Subject to antitrust review, the Altenburg cattle site and the ham processing company Ahlener Fleischhandel are to be transferred to the corporate group...
The husbandry system has collected figures that document the distribution of the product range in the four levels for the different animal species. These figures are based on actual sales volumes throughout the year. Accordingly, despite the pandemic and economic challenges, there is a clear shift, for example, in pork products from level 1 (7,1 percent) to level 2 (84,9 percent) - i.e. products from the Animal Welfare Initiative (ITW) program. In 2021, the quantities of pork sold were still distributed at 22 percent in level 1 and 68 percent in level 2 on the self-service shelves...
The Minister of Agriculture Özdemir is planning a new meat tax, which will relieve the burden on farmers and, above all, convert their stables for fairer animal husbandry. The money is to be paid by the consumer through the so-called “Animal Welfare Cent”. But his predecessor, Julia Klöckner (CDU), already had this idea 4 years ago...
Westfleisch is continuing to expand its range of pet food products: Germany's second largest meat marketer has taken over the entire business operations of The Petfood Company GmbH from Bocholt on February 1, 2024. “With this takeover, we have taken another step towards extending our own value chain,” explains Dr. Wilhelm Uffelmann, CEO of Westfleisch. “We see high growth potential for The Petfood Company's premium products given the strong demand from our trading partners. We want to exploit this together.”
The expansion of the origin labeling of meat came into force on February 1, 2024. It is then mandatory at points of sale to indicate where non-prepackaged fresh, chilled or frozen pork, sheep, goat and poultry meat comes from. Previously, the regulation only applied to unpackaged beef and packaged meat. With the corresponding regulation presented by Federal Minister Cem Özdemir, the federal government is fulfilling a long-held wish from the agricultural sector...
The Tönnies Group is underpinning its sustainability ambitions: The food producer from Rheda-Wiedenbrück has signed a five-year contract with the Heider Alz power plant in Tacherting in Bavaria. This secures the family business around 50 million kilowatt hours of green electricity from the hydroelectric power plant every year. The contract started on January 1st...
In the future, pig farmers in the QS system will be able to get an overview of the animal health of their slaughter pigs much more easily and quickly using the diagnostic data from the slaughterhouses: QS Quality and Security GmbH (QS) has developed an animal health index (TGI) diagnostic data, which contains the diagnostic data from all slaughterhouses to which the farmer has delivered is systematically summarized...
It is undisputed that a global transformation of the agricultural and food system is urgently needed. A report from the Food Systems Economic Commission (FSEC), which was presented in Berlin on January 29, 2024, makes it clear that this is possible and would also bring enormous economic benefits...
Which aspects are crucial in terms of process monitoring and quality assurance in the production of raw sausages and red ham? Answers to these and other questions are provided by the QS Academy's live online seminar "Process monitoring of raw cured products and raw sausages", for which only a few participant places are available...
After its successful premiere in 2023, the “Inhouse Farming – Feed & Food Show” will open its doors for the second time this year from November 12th to 15th in Hanover. The B2B meeting point of the DLG (German Agricultural Society) takes place as part of EuroTier, the world's leading trade fair for professional animal husbandry and livestock management...
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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