The recent events related to food safety have stressed the importance of focusing on traceability in order to guarantee products' quality and origin.

European Union has assumed the commitment to guarantee quality of agrifood productions. By promulgating Rule (EC) nº 178/2002 UE has established the guidelines for food legislation and has created a new scientific body: the European Food Safety Authority. All those regulations require the implementation of traceability monitoring by agrifood companies.

Traceability is considered to be one of the major tools in order to face up consumers' unreliability as well as for managing greater monitoring, quality and safety level at food chain.

Regarding fodder safety, we would like to underline that dehydration process completely complies with traceability standards for proper animal feeding according to Feeding Practices Code Project developed by "Codees Alimentarius" Comission of the FAO and WHO Program on food regulations. Spanish dehydration industry is considering immediate products' quality certification through Spanish UNE rules.

Lately, Nafosa has progressively adopted traceability as a basic component of its quality policy. It is gradually establishing production systems based on "good practices" with the aim of obtaining healthy and waste-free products.

All these targets can be reached by monitoring procedures applied to all our products from farmer's land, through manufacturing and storage, to their delivery to final consumers; as well as by adopting several management tools based on implementation and certification of quality management systems, such as ISO 9000:2000 and ISO 14000.

Our company's structure, human resources and technical means allow us to take care of the products since its sowing until its delivery to customers. Our technicians survey the fields around every day and they analyse and check out the crops so that raw materials get the manufacturing plant in the best condition. Once in the factory, the fodder is selected, analysed and transformed according to its properties. All this is carried out in order to obtain best and homogeneous quality products during the whole year.