INTRODUCTION OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT-SYSTEMS ACCORDING TO DIN EN ISO-9000 FF IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES

With the liberalization of trade in the european market, many areas of the meat industry are experiencing increased economic pressure. The introduction of a quality management system (QM-System) creates opportunities for reducing costs through optimisation and control of quality-relevant procedures in the company, and thereby for retaining and improving the market position.EN ISO 9000 is a series of standards for the creation of effective, certifiable QM-Systems. when implementing the standard there generally exists a large interpretation requirement, because due to the decision of the standards body to create a standards series independent of industry branches, the specific requirements of individual company types are not addressed. Consideration of the application of the standards series to the meat industry shows that the costs and effort involved in creating a certifiable QM-System is generally comparitively low. Many areas of the standards requirements are already implemented in many firms due to the fulfillment of legal requirements for authorised companies. In many areas therefore only an enhanced structuring and systematisation of quality-relevant processes and working procedures is necessary. The following article gives a branch-specific interpretation of the significant elements of the EN ISO 9001 specially for a slaughterhouse.