Introduction
Food safety is a regular concern not only for consumers but for every food industry stakeholder as well. Feed safety is equally important for animal products, especially in the light of the various food scandals that have occurred in the past years. The EU has introduced many regulations regulating a significant part of the feed activities to reduce health risks due to feeding safety. The FAMI-QS developed a certification specifically aiming at the specialty feed ingredients and mixtures present in animal feed to support companies with their feed quality and safety system.
The FAMI-QS (Feed Additive and Pre Mixture System) certification is a standard set out in European Animal Feed Regulation No 183/2005 which addresses feed safety, legality, and quality objectives. The aim of this certification is to provide guidelines for the regulation to manufacturers and traders concerned and to help them develop their own procedures to minimize the hygiene risk associated with additives and premixtures in the feed chain.
The FAMI-QS certification is based on many EU laws, the Codex Alimentarius, the HACCP principles, and many Member States' national management systems, such as the GMP or the Code of Practice, to ensure feed protection. By building on this text its standard, the FAMI-QS is a complete certification covering many areas such as:
âž² Health management systems for quality and feed,
âž² Traceability procedures,
âž² Product regulatory compliance,
âž² Human resources,
âž² Infrastructures
âž² Equipment maintenance and cleaning,
âž² Waste control
Applicable on
âž² Manufacturer of animal feeding ingredient
âž² Trader of animal food
Benefits and Process of procuring Certificate
Benefits of FAMI-QS certification:
âž² Reduces hygiene risk of animal feed and to increase the quality feed
âž² Development of stakeholder form feed sector
âž² Standard is based on real-life processes, hazards and risk analysis recurrent in the industry
âž² Used as a legal compliance tool, the FAMI-QS is recognized by the European Commission, local authorities but also by your consumers seeing here the sign of a positive approach to the health and quality of food.
âž² The FAMI-QS often escape extra-audits for these certifications, thanks to mutual knowledge of local animal feed schemes.
Process of procuring this certification:
âž² Product evaluations with internal audit and FAMI-QS checklist in an applied application
âž² Product identification and FAMI-QS checklist in the application
âž² Assessment of your application by FAMI-QS. You will receive an acceptance note, along with an invoice for an annual membership fee, if accepted
âž² Select a certifying body for auditing
âž² The authorized certification body will audit your company in two phases:-
- Feed Safety Management System assessment
- FSMS implementation verification
âž² Audit findings and potential follow-up of all FAMI-QS criteria
âž² FAMI-QS checks and validates the audit
âž² Annual reporting audit
FSMI-QS code