Analyses carried out as part of the QS feed monitoring scheme
The QS scheme is the world’s largest food safety certification scheme and covers all businesses involved in food production – from farmers to the shop counter. Through voluntary participation, businesses ensure quality assurance that goes beyond legal requirements. This is based on self-monitoring, independent audits, monitoring programmes and continuous internal control mechanisms.
Feed plays a central role in this, as it contributes significantly to animal health and thus to the quality of the food produced from them. Within the QS system, the internationally networked feed sector benefits from close cooperation with other standard-setting bodies, thereby ensuring a uniformly high level of feed safety, facilitating the movement of goods and avoiding costs associated with duplicate audits.
QS feed monitoring serves to monitor and verify these quality assurance measures. Compliance is checked against maximum levels, action limits and QS guideline values for, amongst other things, mycotoxins, pesticide residues, microorganisms, heavy metals, animal-derived components, dioxins, dioxin-like PCBs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) across the feed industry and agricultural sectors. The aim is to detect errors at an early stage, identify exceedances and initiate effective measures to prevent or reduce them. We are the only QS-accredited laboratory for feed monitoring in Austria and are therefore a reliable partner in the field of feed safety.
Further information on QS feed monitoring can be found here.
Ansprechperson
Mag.a Johanna Keßner
- futtermittel@ages.at
- +43 50 555 33216
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Spargelfeldstraße 191
1220 Wien
Last updated: 15.06.2026
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