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July 2020 - Overview of new QS scheme participants
Every month, new companies decide to participate in the QS scheme and thus give a signal to their customers that all their operational processes are checked by independent certification bodies.
June 2020 - Overview of new QS scheme participants
Every month, new companies decide to participate in the QS scheme and thus give a signal to their customers that all their operational processes are checked by independent certification bodies.
May 2020 - Overview of new QS scheme participants
Every month, new companies decide to participate in the QS scheme and thus give a signal to their customers that all their operational processes are checked by independent certification bodies.
Food safety - a daily task at QS
The United Nations has declared 7 June as World Food Safety Day. Every year since 2019, this day has drawn attention worldwide to the health consequences of contaminated and rotten food. The fact that consumers in Germany can rely on safe fresh food is also the aim of the 150,000 participants in the QS network and is at the centre of all our activities.
QS infoportal on the coronavirus offers important specialist information for operational prevention
The slower rate of infection has led to a certain relaxation of the situation in the corona crisis. To ensure that this will remain this way, the consistent implementation of additional hygiene and infection protection measures is still the priority. In order to support its scheme participants in the best possible way, QS offers an infoportal on the coronavirus.
Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) - resumption of audit work
Due to the spread of the coronavirus, we had strongly recommended to refrain from conducting all QS audits in the past two months. In view of the current slowdown in the incidence of infection and the relaxation that has already taken place in many areas of life, we now consider the conduct of QS audits to be possible again.
April 2020 - Overview of new QS scheme participants
Every month, new companies decide to participate in the QS scheme and thus give a signal to their customers that all their operational processes are checked by independent certification bodies.
New issue of QS-Report Fruit, Vegetables, Potatoes published
The new issue of the QS Report for the fruit and vegetable industry is now available in our media catalogue on the QS company website.
New FAQ area for laboratories in the Residue, Feed and Salmonella monitoring
In addition to FAQs on the QS scheme, on participation in the scheme and on questions from the individual scheme stages, QS now also offers a separate question-answer area on its company website for laboratories active in the QS scheme.
Fruit, vegetables, potatoes: Supporting documents for labelling of QS products now also available in Spanish and Italian
The supporting document Labelling of QS products
serves scheme participants as support for the correct implementation of the labelling of QS products on the accompanying documents. The document is now also available in Italian and Spanish - in addition to a German and English version.
