Background information and transparency
Consumers, animal welfare organisations, politics. The need for more background information and transparency in the production of foodstuffs has increased in recent years. In this respect, the meat industry is always at the centre of critical public opinion. As leading company in the industry, Vion wants to meet society’s need for more transparency by improving its information provision.
On this website, we inform you in detail about the beef and pork production processes and continuously publish the documentation of certifications, inspections and audits of all Vion locations in the Netherlands. We also provide information on the official slaughter animal and meat inspections of the animals delivered to and slaughtered at Vion.
Videos of the production process
How pig slaughtering and cutting takes place at Vion is explained by Derk Oorburg, veterinarian in the group’s quality management department.
Note: the video is in German; a Dutch video can be found at the Dutch language version of this page.
Dr Anne Hiller, veterinarian and former Director of Quality Assurance at Vion Germany (2017-2023), explains cattle slaughter and cutting using the example of Vion Buchloe.
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An overview of all processes
View all processesFrom delivery of the animals to shipping the products to customers. Vion's transparency initiative in the Netherlands and Germany (www.vion-transparenz.de) offers our customers, suppliers and partners, as well as our consumers insight into almost all processes.
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Founded on objective inspection results
View the inspection reportsEvery day, numerous inspections are carried out in the Vion companies, by both government veterinarians and our own quality department. The results are stored in our databases on an ongoing basis. Recent results are published in the form of a graphical summary or as an original copy.
Our experts
- Doctorate Veterinarian
- PhD in food safety (Utrecht University)
- Quality director at Vion since 2002
- Specialties: food safety, food integrity, animal welfare and animal health
- Side activities: board member of GlobalGap Top Institute Food and Nutrition and IFS
- Europees specialist Veterinary Public Health (Dipl. ECVPH)
- Manager at Vion since 2005
- Specialties: food safety, animal welfare, product integrity and veterinary export issues
- Side activities: GMP+, GlobalGAP, as well as sitting on committees of the Dutch quality system IKB
- Master of Science Management (Agribusiness)
- Since 2008 at Vion
- Food technologist
- In 2017 EOQ/NNK certified QA manager
- Focus areas: food safety, animal welfare, product and process integrity, quality management, technical customer information
