About us !
The Food Store Quality Association brings together major retailers around a shared goal: ensuring food safety for consumers.
Our Mission
Manage and develop the FSQS standard, a unique and impartial measurement tool for evaluating food safety in retail stores.
Accredited Expertise
Eight COFRAC-accredited inspection bodies ensure the competence and training of qualified inspectors in the field.
14 Committed Retailers
A collegial approach recognized by the industry, driving continuous improvement in practices and meeting growing consumer expectations.
Member Retailers
Food Store Quality Standard
Main Goals
A common standard
It allows the use of a uniform evaluation system for all actors.
Accredited inspections
Allow inspections with accredited inspection bodies and qualified inspectors.
Transparency
Ensure transparency and the possibility of comparisons between sale points of large-scale retailers.
A Standard
Food Store Quality Standard — The Food Store Quality Standard is an inspection standard used by mass-market retailing as a consistent and reliable tool for measuring the level of conformity of food hygiene and food safety in stores. It refers to the Good Hygiene Practices of the profession, to the requirements of the regulations in effect in the country of establishment and to the health control plans of the retailers.
The results of FSQS inspections also allow the various points of sale, stores and retailers to implement appropriate action and improvement plans, in order to increase the level of health safety for consumers.
It is a unique, impartial, objective and recognized measurement "tool" resulting from the pooling of knowledge and experiences of the various member retailers. The FSQS repository is used both at the supermarket level, with sales activities sometimes provided only through consumer self-service, as well as larger hypermarkets with more varied activities and distribution methods. It is also suitable for convenience stores, drives and cash and carry.