food safety as a responsibility for the individual company and the whole supply chain
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Presetation given by QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH CEO Dr. Hermann-Josef Nienhoff at the 7th China International Food Safety & Quality Conference + Expo, PekingTRANSCRIPT
Food safety as a responsibility for the individual company and the whole supply chain
Dr. Hermann-Josef Nienhoff
China International Food Safety and Quality Conference, 07.11.2013
How voluntary quality assurance initiatives promote food safety
Food safety is a daily challenge for the whole supply chain
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QS certification mark: a reliable trustmark for competitors and consumers
Food safety is a daily challenge for the whole supply chain
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QS is the industry‘s self-regulatory quality assurance scheme
Prime responsibility of businesses
Industry joins forces and makes efforts within QS
Suppliers and customers can rely on each other
…and consumers can as well
Building trust is a daily challenge
QS certification mark: a reliable trustmark for competitors and consumers
Building trust in global food markets
Businesses share responsibility on top of legal requirements
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Administrative laws Norms and standards Liabilities
Businesses‘ responsibility
QA schemes Offical control authorities
Multitude of stakeholders heterogeneous attitudes Differing structures
Sensitive products Diverse processes
EU-regulation No 178/2002
Self-assessment Food and feed business operators at all stages of production, processing and distribution…shall ensure that foods or feeds satisfy the
requirements of food law …and shall verify that such requirements are met.
Traceability They shall be able to identify any person from whom they have been supplied with a food, a feed… They shall have in place systems and procedures…
Society‘s confidence Critical consumers
Quality assurance from farm to fork
Voluntary commitment of the whole supply chain
QS is a transparent, cross-stage quality assurance scheme
to pursue a uniform understanding
to gain credibility of the businesses
to face crises together
to build mutual trust
QS as a reliable trustmark
QS certification mark for competitors and consumers
QS is an independent organisation
without political or economical influence
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Food industry Agriculture
Feed sector Food retail
Process controls take precedence over final product controls
Three levels of control to ensure compliance with QS requirements
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Integrity system
Independent inspections and laboratory analysis
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regular self-assessments at
135,000 locations continuous sampling at
critical control points (> 2 M analysis results p.a.)
38 approved certification bodies
400 well-trained auditors
157 approved laboratories (standardised analytical methods)
Residue monitoring Feed monitoring Salmonella monitoring
Higher-level audits to secure scheme integrity
Laboratory performance assessment
Traceability checks
Scheme manual: uniform standards, rules and regulations
Internal self assessment and documentation
CHECKLIST
Feed and meat chain: 104,660 participants in 17 countries
Assuring food safety hand in hand
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Food retail (23,500) Meat industry (660)
Agricultural production 31,000 cattle farmers, 40,100 pig farmers, 4,000 poultry producers 1,700 livestock transporters
Feed sector (3,700)
Traceability Self-assessment Hygiene Incident and crisis management …
Feed monitoring
HACCP
Raw material management
…
Feed monitoring
Animal welfare/transport
Salmonella monitoring
…
HACCP
Temperature registration
Animal welfare
…
Hygiene
Temperature registration
Training
…
Fruit and vegetable chain: 28,800 participants in 15 countries
Assuring food safety hand in hand
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Production (13,300)
Wholesale (800)
Food retail (14,700) Traceability Self-assessment Hygiene Incident and crisis management …
Plant protection Maximum residue level Hygiene …
Storage Hygiene Training …
Hygiene Storage Transport …
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Comprehensive data allow meaningful analyses
Number of audit results and analysis results per year
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QS database
40,000 independent audit results
11,000 analysis results residue monitoring (fruit/ vegetables)
more than 80,000 antibiotic prescriptions
385,000 analysis results feed monitoring
1.72 million salmonella analyses
…
Monitoring of contaminants in feed
Risk-oriented control plans for compound feed and feed material
385,000 analysis results in 22,000 samples
Participation is mandatory for
Feed material producers
Compound feed producers
Feed traders
Control plans
Risk-oriented
Industry-sector-specific
Number of samples depends on total production
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Total 385,086
Parameter
Pesticides 326,105
Heavy metals 21,076
Salmonella 9,665
Dioxin and dioxinlike PCB 7,366
Deoxynivalenol, Vomitoxin (DON) 5,406
Zearalenon 5,156
PCB (non-dioxinlike PCB) 2,960
Aflatoxine B1 2,495
Animal components 2,493
Antibiotic performance promoters 853
PAK 833
Ochratoxin A (OTA) 614
Number of analyses by parameters (2012)
Residue monitoring for fruit and vegetables
Compliance with maximum residue level
Mandatory control plans for producers, wholesalers and retailers
Risk-oriented sampling and specified control plans
Products‘ adherence to maximum residue level
plant protection products
post-harvest treatment substances
growing agents
heavy metals
nitrate
>1,000 samples monthly
out of 40 countries
46 % of the samples had no detectable residues
1.9 % of samples with complaints
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Systematic traceability (using the example of pork)
Accurate identification from farm to shop
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Agricultural production -Stock book -Marking of animals with stamp or ear tag
Slaughtering/deboning -Incoming and outgoing goods documents -List of customers and suppliers
Traceability of batches
Traceability of individual animals
Wholesale -Incoming and outgoing goods documents -List of customers and suppliers
Export -Incoming goods documents -List of suppliers
Livestock transport -Stock book -Marking of animals with stamp or ear tag
Fresh products are vulnerable to crises
Well functioning incident and crisis management is mandatory
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Crisis management requires clear communication and coordination
Containment, information and clarification indispensable
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Comprehensive information of scheme participants, authorities, public,… (based on reliable data and facts)
Drawing conclusions
Adaptation of requirements
Tightening controls
Sanctioning of participants
...
Providing clarity Conducting audits immediately Product controls Tracing back Coordination with authorities …
Initiating measures Blocking scheme participants Withdrawing products Informing customers and suppliers Raising awareness (Informing all possibly affected scheme participants) …
Incidents and crises
Contamination of fruit/vegetables, meat/meat products, feed Non-compliance with requirements
Media coverage
Avoiding crises right from the start
QS data as basis for clarification of incidents and more
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Essential data
center
QS data as key factor in clarifying incidents
Audit results Monitoring results Traceability data …
Identifying critical developments at an early stage
Immediate inspections to provide clarity Data exchange
Network of information Views of authorities Network of experts
We cannot inhibit crises, but we have to act promptly, coherently and comprehensively
Economic and scientific cooperations can influence the communicative dimension of crises
Measures
Cooperating quality assurance schemes
country-specific and global quality schemes for
Feed and feed material
Meat and meat products
Fruit and vegetables
15 mutual recognition agreements to ensure transnational quality
Eligible to deliver into QS scheme:
5,450 fruit/vegetables producers
40,530 cattle farmers
14,710 pig farmers/abattoirs
4,750 feed companies
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Exchanging information and enhancing QA on a comparably high level
Food safety requires continuous improvement
New information and a better understanding need to be adopted
Our economy’s self-regulatory scheme requires constant reviewing:
How to identify risks quickly and counteract actively?
How to better protect competitors, consumers and the scheme itself?
How to make it harder to break down or act in a criminal matter?
How to improve cooperation with official authorities?
Basis for our work
is a common understanding of trust among auditors, competitors and consumers
is not to blame the state or others
is not to scrutinise mistakes and
is not to spy on each other
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Self-regulation of businesses and official control authorities
Proactive and constructive instead of reactive and destructive. In both directions!
Do we need official control authorities?
Yes, we do! Responsibilities can not be delegated!
the official authorities have a sovereign responsibility and they have to be supreme
instances without any economical influence
self-regulatory systems can only work effectively, if they are independent and
without any political influence
Self-regulatory systems and official control authorities can improve cooperation (with respect of data protection in a predefined way)
to assess and classify risks
to work together in case of incidents
to avoid double auditing and costs
to exchange critical findings
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Regarding food safety: the supply chain is actively and jointly taking responsibility
Each company for its processes
In the voluntary self-regulatory system
The supply chain together for the consumers
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Thank you for your attention!
Hermann-Josef Nienhoff QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH Phone: +49 (0)228 35068 0 E-Mail: [email protected] www.q-s.de