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.

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.