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Quality assurance

To the deer industry, quality includes animal welfare, animal health, food safety, identification, traceability and environmental issues.

Definition of quality
Venison processors industry agreed standards
Quality assurance standard for deer farming
Transport QA
DINZ approved standard carcass trim

More resources

Information on Quality assurance on your deer farm is available in a convenient DINZ Deer Fact sheet (August 2017). Download your own copy here >>

To download Useful Questions & Answers regarding the Hygiene Requirements, Cold Chain Management, Transport, Traceability and Auditing of the New Measures for Handling Velvet May 2017, click here >>

The development of the DeerQA On-Farm Industry Agreed Standard was funded by the Passion2Profit Primary Growth Partnership.

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