FAMI-QS

Safety and quality programme for speciality feed ingredients

Contributing to safe food

Animal feed refers to the food given to livestock. It is an essential part of animal welfare and has an important impact on the quality of meat, eggs and milk products coming into consumer’s plates.

Feed certification schemes help feed producers and brokers to comply with the legislation and increasingly stringent consumer requirements. They ensure feed is of high quality and contributes to keep healthy, high-yield animals.

Eurofins Food Assurance teams can help feed producers and brokers to get ready for the FAMI-QS certification scheme.

What is FAMI-QS? FAMI-QS is a preeminent feed safety management system for the sector of specialty feed ingredients and their mixtures.

The certification scheme proactively responds to the emerging challenges for the specialty feed ingredients and their mixtures thanks to its expert’s collective experience and knowledge in the feed industry.

Scope of FAMI-QS? FAMI-QS is the worldwide leading accredited scheme for companies that produce or trade ingredients coming from the following processes:

• Chemical
• Bioprocessing
• Mining
• Extraction
• Mixing

Key features of FAMI-QS? FAMI-QS is an accredited feed safety management system with a dedicated chapter on Good Manufacturing Practices including Human Health and HACCP supporting document per manufacturing.

In addition, a mandatory Feed Fraud Prevention and Feed Defense module is included.

Certified producers and traders will have to undergo a mandatory unannounced audit.

Through a public list on the FAMI-QS website, the certification scope of certified sites can be seen which brings trust and transparency to customers.

With FAMI-QS, certified feed producers and traders have easier access to the worldwide market of specialty feed ingredients and their mixtures.