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QS-Report: Meat and Meat Products | Issue November 2018 Joint assessment of animal health Integration of o cial and private sector data • Joint assessment of animal health • QS laboratories deliver reliable results • QS Science Fund sponsors new projects • Collection of diagnostic data for poultry • Digital knowledge transfer • Short and brief Content Editorial QS-Report Meat and Meat Products 02/2018 Qualitätssicherung. Vom Landwirt bis zur Ladentheke. Dear readers, E-learning is in. Therefore, parallel to the classic o line courses, QS is also extending its range of online further trainings. Read more about this topic on page 1. On page 4 we report on the funding of the project called “PPP-Infos”, in which, for the rst time, already existing o cial and private sector own data on animal welfare and animal health were integrated and evaluated. The result of the evaluation can serve as a basis for the con- sultation provided by the farm veterinarian, up to the implementation of measures by the corresponding veter- inary authority and should contribute to the optimization of the farming systems. Your QS team wishes you an interesting read! A standardised preparation and evaluation of data, that allows the drawing of conclusions about animal health and animal farming or enables the identi cation of concrete de cits - this was the aim of a joint project between BALVI GmbH (information processing), the University of Veteri- nary Medicine Hannover and QS. A er a project period of three years the results are now being summarized. As part of the project, a rst data information system was created. Through the targeted integration of existing data from salmonella moni- toring, antibioticsmonitoring, the col- lection of slaughter diagnostic data, as well as data from the farms (mor- tality rates) and veterinary inspection o ces (information on animal welfare violations), an e ective instrument for the prevention, early warning and elimination of irregularities in animal farming was developed. For the rst time ever, such diverse and di erent data were gathered and used for a holistic approach. Di erent informa- tion can be extracted from the combi- nation of the data, depending on the question and the user. This makes it possible to identify at an early stage, whether a farm presents any abnor- malities with regards to animal health - at the same time for all the users in- volved: this is primarily the farmer himself and, if he has authorized the data, the veterinary inspection o ce, the veterinarian or even QS, as well. Each of these users can, ac- cording to his intended role, retrieve processed data and use the results. “By combining all the data, we are making it possible to comprehen- sively evaluate and classify the live- stock farms,” explains Thomas May, who accompanied the project on behalf of QS. “The work of all the involved parties - whether farmers, veterinarians, authorities or QS – would be easier if in the future they could carry out analyses and evalu- ations in a single database and on the basis of uniform input data.“ Johannes Röring, President of the Westphalian-Lippe Agricultural Asso- ciation, adds: “This is data from farm- ersthatisnotavailabletothirdparties without their consent. Farmers have other expectations on a database than the authorities and the private sector. A central database, in which all the results from the monitoring programmes and analyses are stored, o ers farmers excellent evaluation and comparison possibilities for their own farm management. This enables them to react in a timely manner, if necessary. With such a solution, we have also taken the rst step towards settingupananimalhealthdatabase.“ The results of the project prove for the rst time, that it is possible to use di erent data from several sources for a joint examination and evaluation. This allows to explore