International mutual recognitions
QS knows no borders. In an attempt to achieve a uniform level of food safety at the European level as well, QS puts its faith in international cooperation and integration. The aim is to avoid double auditing of the economic participants and to enable the flow of goods between the various quality assurance systems. For this reason, QS has already come to agreements with various standards in neighbouring European countries.
For example, for the agricultural stage:
Holland:
- Certifications according to the Dutch IKB- and IKB 2004+ standards are recognised by QS for pork production.
- The Dutch agricultural companies are also linked via cooperations and thus no longer need to carry out an additional QS audit in order to qualify for deliveries into the QS system.
Denmark:
The quality assurance of Danish pork products is carried out according to two standards, one for primary production, the DANISH product standard, and one for slaughter and deboning companies, the Global Red Meat Standard (GRMS).
This has been used by QS and Danske Slagterier as the foundation for enabling the agreement regarding deliveries from the QSG system from both the agricultural stage and the slaughter/deboning stage.
- Farms in the Danish system are certified according to the requirements of the product standard. Companies that have successfully completed this certification process are authorised to supply into the QS system.
- The check to see whether Danish companies are authorised to supply piglets and pigs for slaughter to the QS system must be carried out in the "Qualitätssicherunge" section under www.danishmeat.de or directly under www.spf-sus.dk.
