Tested quality - Bavaria
Tested Quality - Bavaria (short: GQ-Bayern or GQ-B or GQB ) is a quality and origin assurance system for plant and animal foods from food production and processing.
The certification takes place via a control system that carries out feed and food tests and origin controls. The three-stage control system includes self-control, external control by certification bodies and state system supervision .
The holder of the label tested quality - Bavaria is the Free State of Bavaria , represented by the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests (StMELF).
history
The predecessor of the current program was the program, Quality from Bavaria - Guaranteed Origin, introduced in 1985 . In order to do justice to new developments in the EU, the program was realigned in 2002 and Geprüfte Qualität - Bayern introduced. Starting with the cattle and beef product area, the program now includes 28 animal and vegetable product areas for food production and processing.
Since the system control takes place along the entire production chain up to the consumer levy, numerous slaughterhouses and cutting plants, mills, wholesale bakers, wholesalers, restaurants and food retailers are also checked in addition to the producers .
At the end of 2011, around 25,000 companies took part in the program. The largest share comes from the cattle / beef product area with around 17,000 producers.
Product areas
The currently actively used product areas with the commercially available products are shown in the following table:
| Tested quality - Bavaria product area | Products | Program participants (producers) * | Label user * |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cattle and beef / (calves and veal) | Beef (veal) | 15,000 | 40 |
| Pork and pork | pork meat | 1700 | 34 |
| Milk and milk-based products | Whole milk, long-life milk, butter, cheese, yoghurt, quark, whipped cream, other milk products | 270 | 8th |
| Eggs | Eggs, boiled / colored eggs, liquid egg | 50 (including producer) | |
| honey | honey | 6 (including producer) | |
| Bread grain | Wheat, rye, spelled | 170 | 9 |
| Flour and meal products | Wheat, rye and spelled flours, etc., bread mixes | 6th | |
| Bread and biscuits | Bread, rolls, pretzels, biscuits | 2 (with 250 branches) | |
| Vegetables including salads | Yellow beets, cucumbers, cabbage, cabbage, leek, paprika, parsley, radishes, radish, Brussels sprouts, beetroot, salads, celery, asparagus, tomatoes, zucchini, cultivated mushrooms, onions, etc. | 215 | 75 |
| Fine sour delicacies / canned vegetables | Pickles, celery, beetroot, red cabbage, etc. | 10 | |
| Durum wheat pasta | Durum wheat pasta | 2 | |
| Table / processing potatoes | Potatoes, compound products (dumplings, etc.) | 290 | 17th |
| Pome and stone fruit | Apples | 350 | 3 |
| Canola cooking oil | Rapeseed | 5 | 1 |
| Food retail outlets | 2600 branches | ||
In addition, Geprüfte Qualität - Bayern was developed for the following product areas, which are currently not used by any participant:
- Lambs and lamb
- Game and game meat
- Broilers / turkeys
- beer
- Fruit brandies / spirits
character
A mark was developed to mark “ Tested Quality - Bavaria ” food. This symbol consists of a blue and white oval logo with Bavarian diamonds and the text Geprüfte Qualität and the word Bavaria .
The use of the mark is not permitted to all program participants, but only to those who use the mark, who are subject to a more complex control procedure than pure program participants (usually producers).
Web links
- Homepage of tested quality - Bavaria
- Homepage of the StMELF for Tested Quality - Bavaria
- Homepage of the Nutrition Cluster for the project expansion of the Bavaria brand through further development of the quality and origin assurance program Certified Quality - Bavaria (GQ-B)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d 10 years of tested quality - Bavaria. (PDF) The Bavarian quality and origin assurance program. Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry , 2012, accessed on August 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Tested quality - Bavaria. (PDF) Development of participation. 2014, accessed August 26, 2014 .