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Border crossing integrated quality assurance in food producing enterprises in the Euregio Rhine-Maas-North

Facing the background of the tough market situation by food production, the previous know-how and strategies for selfdependent monitoring and control of food hygiene and quality in Germany and the Netherlands should intensively  be exchanged, evaluated and improved together. As a legal base the directive 93/43 EWG of the Councel on food hygiene, the General Food Law (EU 178/02) on methods for food safety as well as the respective national legislation. The workflow of the project can be divided into business related and inter enterprise activities. A Dutch-German workgroup, consisting of two consultancies, one softwarehouse, the University of Bonn as well as two project organisators coordinate these activities and implements them.

In the factories an individual supervision finds place which is divided into the steps analysis on the present state, construction of a guide on quality management, doing a risk analysis based upon the HACCP-concept and internal audits. Furthermore employee-trainings on strengthening competences and assuring continuous implementation of quality and hygiene management systems are supported. The tool Preventive Health Management one the one hand supports the advisors by moderating risk analyses and serves on the other hand as knowledge base on risk analyses and planning of controls for other enterprises.

Exchange of experiences over the whole project period offer the possibility for the pilot factories to discuss problems and their possible solutions in a border-crossing way. These strategies for solving problems are documented in a knowledge data base.