With Safety Guard, VanDrie Group's quality system, we can provide the guarantees that are required of us worldwide. In every link of the chain. Every aspect of our work is governed by the Safety Guard standards, whether it's on veal farms, during feed production or at meat processing plants.

This quality system is based on ISO 22000. The VanDrie Group's various subsidiaries also hold certificates for GMP+, IFS, BRC and ISO14001, among others. With Safety Guard, the VanDrie Group fully complies with the Dutch veal sector's quality system: Vitaal Kalf (Vital Veal). This quality system includes rules for hygiene, calf health, feed quality, medicine use and registration. Our veal farmers are inspected for compliance with these requirements by the independent Veal Calves Quality Guarantee Foundation (SKV). The SKV also carries out sampling and visual inspections of calf farmers and the meat-processing companies to guarantee that veal is produced without the use of undesirable growth-promoting substances.

Traceability throughout the chain
A unique aspect of Safety Guard is its traceability system. We keep precise records of which raw materials are processed into animal feed, where they come from and which farms receive the batches of animal feed. The calves have unique ear numbers that are always linked to the animal. This enables us to know at which farm the animal was kept or even born. In the meat processing plants, the unique code remains linked to the meat. We are thus able to trace an individual piece of meat, for example, back to an individual ingredient in the animal feed.

The independent laboratory Labora, which is ISO 17025 accredited and part of the VanDrie Group, specialises in analytical and microbiological testing of products for humans and animals. Labora carries out tests for the VanDrie production companies. This is how we make our guarantees truly demonstrable.