Feed monitoring
In the QS system all individual animal feed manufacturers are obliged to implement and ensure the QS criteria. These also include comprehensive investigations of the raw materials or end products within the framework of QS animal feed monitoring.
The aim of the animal feed monitoring processes is to ensure constant monitoring of QS individual animal feeds and the maintenance of threshold and guidelines values for mycotoxins, environmental toxins, pesticides, micro organisms or heavy metals.
In order to secure the maintenance of the criteria and to ensure that the comparability of analysis results between laboratories is at a uniform level, only QS recognised laboratories are permitted to carry out animal feed monitoring.
The investigations that must be carried out by QS animal feed companies are summarised in the Animal feed monitoring guideline.
Animal feed monitoring database module
Since the start of the Animal feed monitoring database module in April 2008, all analysis results must be recorded and saved in the QS software platform. The set data gives an overview of the nature of animal feeds. Since this time, both the entry of analysis results in the database module as well as the use of QS recognised laboratories is monitored within the framework of neutral monitoring.
Data entry
For entries into the database module, samples are fundamentally relevant that are taken in the company and which should be taken into account for the QS monitoring plan: The system partner records the sample related data and approves the commissioned laboratory. This then enters the results of the analysis into the database. The laboratory is only able to view the samples that they have received an examination order for. In the same way, all of the system partners are only able to view the sample related data and results relating to their company. An overview of the various functionalities of the QS animal feed monitoring database module can be found in the associated user manual. This is available for download under http://qs-platform.info/QSSoftware/Hilfe.
Guidelines, Checklists and other Downloads can be found here.
