Qualimat Association

Founded in 1978, Qualimat is an organization made up of professionals working in the Animal Feeds industry, striving for the nutritional quality and hygiene safety of raw materials used for manufacturing animal feed

Notre histoire

1978

Organization created

1980

Qualimat obtains its first NIR

1982

Implementation of monitoring of mycotoxin using HPLC

1989

 Implementation of first control plans shared between manufacturers (salmonella analysis)

1996

Studies on pesticides in cereals

1997

Studies on cleanliness of trucks and precedents for transporting raw materials

2001

 Implementation of Qualimat Transport specifications: Version 1

2002

Samples carried out in the context of Qualimat Contrôle are no longer implemented by the DGCCRF, but by Qualimat

2000-2008

Implementation of a shared plan on the control of undesirable substances with the support of the Region of Brittany

2007-2008

Signing of mutual recognition with GMP+ International, Ovocom and QS, in the context of version 4 of the Qualimat Transport specifications

2009

Qualimat becomes a partner member of Oqualim and is granted the implementation and management of the national shared plan for monitoring undesirable substances in raw materials destined for animal feed

2012

Launch of Qualimat protocol with the help of alert management

2014

Qualimat Transport: recognition with the transport component of the CSA-GTP

2015

Qualimat Transport – version 6 of the specifications: extension of scope to cover compound feed

2015

Launch of Qualimat Amont (Upstream)

2017

Development of a new IT portal for managing analysis results

2018

Launch of the new IT portal for managing analysis results

2019

Valuation of 16 years of nutritional and sanitary controls

2020
  • Implementation of exceptional measures in response to the COVID-19 health situation
  • Consolidation of the use of the Quality Portal for the benefit of pooling analyzes
  • Continuation of Qualimat’s contribution to the work of the profession
2021
  • 20th birthday of Qualimat Transport third part certification disposal
  • Modernisation of rapid analysis equipment
  • Continuation of exchanges with GMP+ and Securefeed on reciprocal knowledge of tools at the service of health security
2022
  • Implementation of the new version of the Qualimat Transport reference documents consolidating the third party
  • Continuation of Qualimat’s contribution to the work of the profession
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The Oragnization's values

Our mission

To contribute to the safety of the animal feed sector and its economic balance, by creating and maintaining shared tools for the monitoring of and knowledge about raw materials :

  • sharing the expertise of companies, tools, information
  • qualitative monitoring: optimum qualification of raw materials
  • hygiene monitoring
  • role of monitoring any emerging issues

Key figures

55

members including 34 feed manufacturers, 7 premix producers, 12 suppliers and 2 professional organizations

1

cross-activity quality IT portal

Organization

 

 

 

The Executive Board is made up of 15 administrators from manufacturer and premix producer members. They define the Organization’s strategic focuses by area of activity.

A partnership of 2 Administrators and a referent project manager leads each area of activity , in coordination with the management team.

  • The management committee is made up of member representatives, experts in their area. Depending on the areas of activity, representatives from partner organizations and consultants may also participate in the management committee.
  • The technical committee is a cross-activity reporting and exchange group, for members and in which representatives of french Administration can also participate.

Our Members