The Landwirtschaftlicher Beratungsdienst Schwäbisch Hall e. V., an agricultural consultancy service of the BESH Group, was founded in 1991. The consultants advise the 273 pig breeders (stand: 2008), who are members of the BESH.  In addition, they carry out practical tests and investigations dealing with agricultural production and transmit these and other agricultural research results to the members. Besides, the consultancy service operates effciency tests in the member farms based on the livestock.

EGO is a fully integrated system on a cooperative base (120 employees). It coordinates a self sufficient regional production chain from piglet production over to slaughter facilities through to a meat processing unit. 500 contracted farms produce aproximately 420.000 piglets and 370.000 pigs for slaughtering. All member farms act according to a stringently controlled integrated quality management system. A combined animal health service system provides preventive veterinary services. EGO runs its own business for meat extraction and dissection with a current slaughter capacity of 500.000 pigs p.a. EGO has long-term experience in national and international applied research and technology developement projects.

The GLS is an organisation which carries out microbiological sampling, quality control and monitoring, and meat hygiene controls. It has developed a quality monitoring system starting at the delivery of the living animal at the slaughterhouse to pre-packed retailer fresh meat. It disposes over a laboratory which can offer a broad variety of meat quality testing.

H+P was founded in 2004 as a non-profit organisation with the mandate from the Bavarian Stategovernment to conduct the meat hygiene examination in three slaughterhouses and in two administrative districts. Furthermore, H+P operates for quality programmes, e.g. salmonella sampling.The Fleischhygiene Südostbayern GmbH is 100% subsidiary of H+P and likewise a non-profit organisation. It carries out meat hygiene examination in the Southeast of Bavaria.

Qualitype was founded in Dresden in the year 2001. The company offers software and services in the area of bioinformatics, clinical trials, quality and origin assurance. Other areas include consulting for biological, pharmaceutical and medical research. Supplied with the most progressive technical equipment and highly professional employees, the company is able, to solve all complex problems in the heterogeneous research field of the biotechnological and pharmaceutical industry. Qualitype will provide its expertise in transforming laboratory information from multiple laboratories into meaningful information for operational quality assurance.
Qualityproof® PigRelease the central salmonella database is an important web based application for the zoonosis monitoring of the QS-System in the pig production chain.

The ZDS is an umbrella organisation of organised pig production in Germany. It comprises nearly all breeding organisations and organisations for  artificil insemination. And nearly all farmers organizations for sows, piglets, fattening and slaughtering pigs as well as agricultural and iconsulting organisations are involved. ZDS represents the interests of organised pig production on national and international level and coordinates within Germany the areas of breeding, artificial insemination, research (A.I., genomic, biotechnology), reproduction hygiene, data acquisition and data evaluation. In addition, ZDS is concerned with current questions in exchange with the political and administrative level, the other umbrella organisations within the agricultural sector and subsequent fields.

GIQS (German abbreviation for “Trans Border Integrated Quality Assurance”) is an international public private network of European chain actors and research bodies. Goal is to support food chains and networks through international research and development projects to strengthen chain oriented quality management. Members of GIQS are universities and research stations, private companies, public and semi-public bodies.
GIQS has built up a number of collaborative R&D projects and has experience in facilitation of applied research and knowledge transfer in food chains.

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The Food-Processing Initiative Society is an instrument of co-operative economic promotion that will supportively intervene in this adaptation process. The Society was found by companies from the food-industry of North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) State of Germany with the support of the State North-Rhine Westphalia to strengthen the food sector. This concept is including prefabrication and follow-up fabrication of the food sector, the experts of science, associations, unions and the institutions of the state belong to the network partners of this Society. The principal aim of this Society is to support all companies involved in the production process.