Expert workshop on animal health in relation to quality assurance
Within the last few years requirements of the food industry have changed. According to new food legal regulations, norms, standards, and initiatives enterprises are confronted with a number of new challenges. Due to these new developments, enterprises have to act in a more self-governing way along the production chain in order to ensure food safety and quality.
Group Glon as a partner in the Q-PorkChains projects has started the initiative to organise an expert workshop on the topic “Animal health management in relation to quality assurance” (15.-16. April 2008). The aim of the workshop was to get insights in the organisation of quality control in pork chains in different EU countries and companies (with the focus on farm level, slaughterhouses and connected services like veterinarians, laboratories, feed companies, farmer cooperatives etc.).
The following organisations were present:
Group Glon
Erzeugergemeinschaft Osnabrück
Chainfood University of Bonn / FoodNetCenter Bonn
The workshop started with an introduction of EU legislation with respect to quality management underlying health management. This followed by country-specified and company-specified presentations (you can download the presentations in the right column).
Please download the presentations here:
"Relevance of EU regulations to animal health management & Legislation and pork production in Germany"
by Detert Brinkmann,
FoodNetCenterBonn, University of Bonn
"Animal health management in relation to quality assurance - The EGO perspective"
by Rudolf Festag,
Erzeugergemeinschaft Osnabrück
"Animal health management in relation to quality assurance - The VION perspective"
by Gereon Schulze Althoff,
Vion Food Group
"Animal health management in relation to quality assurance - The Abera perspective"
by Xavier Goltais,
Slaughterhouse Abera, Group Glon