Consumers are increasingly concerned about their health, quality of food, environmental and animal welfare. They are turning increasingly to food authentic assuring maximum guarantees in terms of food security and production methods.
Make check or certify a food product can meet those expectations by providing objective guarantees its compliance with specifications and a reference identifying characteristics.
The specification and reference are controlled by the company and an independent body.
The objective of this approach and improve security, increase transparency and ensure the confidence that everyone is entitled to give to food. The industrial buyer and the final consumer and are sure to find a regular quality assurance.
There are two approaches:
The collective mark of quality:
This is a brand associated with specifications established by the producer concerning explicit characteristics (measurable and verifiable) that the producer wants to guarantee.
This specification is then checked by an independent body.
Certification and labeling:
This includes obtaining labels such as:
The Certificat de conformité produit, which guarantee that the product has special qualities manufacturing separate product current.
The Label Rouge, which guarantees a quality product of superior taste great demand.
The Attestation de spécificté which highlights a traditional composition.
The Indication Géographique Protégée, indicating that production takes place in a geographical area with a recognized expertise.
These different label also require the establishment of specifications and a repository that is then reviewed with the NPB (National Commission of Certification and Label). An independent body and then regularly to monitor compliance with these specifications.
AQUALOG missions
Diagnostic Study (strengths and communicating a product, producers' expectations, the possibility of certification)