Butchers and poultry shops
Ensure food safety across your locations.
Comply with the hygiene code as a butcher or poultry business
Working hygienically is essential for butchers and poultry shops to prevent contamination and food poisoning among customers. The Hygiene Code for Butchers and Poultry Shops, in place since 2021, was developed to ensure the industry’s compliance with all food safety regulations. But how can you demonstrate that your business complies with this code? We help you check off all the requirements with less effort. With inspections and a convenient HACCP app, we are ready to support you.
We help you comply with the Hygiene Code for Butchers and Poultry Shops
Our consultants from Eurofins Bureau de Wit contributed to writing the new hygiene code for butchers and poultry shops and are thus ideally placed to help your business demonstrate compliance. We give you several options:
- We can carry out regular hygiene audits, verifying your business against the hygiene code for butchers and poultry shops.
- We also offer a HACCP app, a complete digital solution for all HACCP measurement and registration requirements. This ensures you don’t overlook anything, always have measurement results at hand, and can complete required tasks on time.
Hygiene audit for the Hygiene Code for Butchers and Poultry Shops
We provide the option of a periodic hygiene audit, where we assess whether your business complies with the hygiene code. The results help you continuously improve your processes and deliver even better quality.
We provide you with an audit report and, if applicable, a lab report. With our report, you have independent proof to show customers that you meet requirements. Depending on your chosen options, you may also qualify for the Food Safety Quality Mark if your score exceeds 80%. With this, your business requires reduced supervision by the NVWA, meaning fewer inspections.
How else can we support you?
We help butchers and poultry shops with other aspects of the hygiene code. Since 1961, we have specialised in this field, accumulating extensive knowledge and experience.
Are you in the process of obtaining your EC approval? Our consultants can guide you and set up the correct sampling plan together with you. We conduct analyses such as E. coli (STEC), Salmonella, Listeria, total bacterial count, and nutritional values in our own laboratories.
Our consultants are fully up to date on the latest legislation regarding labelling, shelf life, allergens, traceability, and recalls. They are able to support you in making adjustments to your processes and quality system.
Want to find out more about the hygiene code and our support?
Would you like to know more about these topics or how we can help you? Contact us today.
We also provide these services in cooperation with the Dutch Butchers’ Association (KNS) and the Poultry Association.