Autocontrole-app - Quality Guard

A self-monitoring system customized to your business

The Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FAVV) enforces stringent laws regarding allergens, food safety and hygiene in restaurants, catering services and institutional kitchens. The government agency issues a self-monitoring guide that tells you what legislation applies to you as a baker, butcher, shopkeeper, etc.

Meeting all the food safety requirements is often a lot of work for the business owner – but Quality Guard is here to help: all the Belgian legislation is built into our handy self-monitoring application. Use the app and free up your valuable time for investment in your core business, instead of burying yourself under food safety paperwork.

Get the Smiley certificate

If you meet all the legal requirements during a FAVV audit, you will be awarded the Smiley certificate. Lots of businesses display the certificate prominently by their entrance, so that their customers can be assured of the emphasis laid on food safety and hygiene. Using the Quality Guard app sets you up perfectly to gain the Smiley certificate in no time. There are two further major advantages to having the certificate: you won’t be subject to so many spontaneous audits by the FAVV, and your annual fees to the agency will be reduced by 75%! What’s more, using Quality Guard costs you less than the cost of the Smiley audit.

Ordering products from your suppliers

The app includes an online shop where you can easily order raw materials from your own suppliers. Draw up your shopping list and send orders to your suppliers with a unique code.

Incoming goods checks

Whenever goods arrive, Belgian law requires you to check them for odour, colour, packaging, temperature and expiry date. Just use the Quality Guard app to complete your incoming goods checks in no time. The app will also notify your suppliers automatically if any products fail to meet requirements.

Automatically track products

Quality Guard requests the batch numbers or Sanitel numbers and expiry dates for the products you've received from your suppliers. That way, there’s no manual input involved in tracking products. The scanning system makes it easy to link batch numbers to any specific product.

Compile recipes

You can store all your raw materials in the app, and use the information to create and save recipes easily. Quality Guard tells you the allergens and nutritional information for your recipes. Use the handy calculator to adjust quantities in any dish.

Print labels and information sheets

You can use Quality Guard to print labels for all types and sizes of packaging. Every label includes the legally required information. There is also a batch number on the label, so that you can track products directly.

Create order receipts and delivery notes

The app makes it easy to create order receipts. When the order is fulfilled, you can automatically link the batch numbers to each order. It’s then easy to print out delivery notes with the right batch numbers and expiry dates for the products you’re delivering.

Plan and track tasks and cleaning schedules

Every employee gets a personalised task list in the app. You can keep a running check on which tasks have been completed and which ones are still pending. You can enter a cleaning schedule in Quality Guard and the app will assign the various tasks to different members of staff. Everybody knows what they need to do. You also get a weekly report with an analysis of the task list.

Temperature recording

Monitor product temperatures with wireless temperature sensors in your deep freezes and chillers. If the temperature isn’t optimal, you’ll receive an automatic email or SMS alert.

Cutting products

It’s quick and easy to label your cuts with their batch or Sanitel number, packaging date and expiry date. You can save names and quantities in the app to speed up the process further next time.

Overview of the most important functionality in the Quality Guard app

Tracking

Each time you scan a batch from your stock, the system automatically adds the batch number to all recipes that use this raw material. The system therefore has the production date, batch number, and expiry date of each raw material and can automatically calculate the shelf life of the recipe.

Stock control

All goods received are assigned a batch number and expiry date. You can see at all times what you have in stock and how long it will keep.

Incoming goods checks

When you get deliveries of goods you’ve ordered via the online shop, use the app to easily complete the incoming goods checks. You can check that everything has arrived, that it’s properly packaged, check the expiry dates, etc. If anything is wrong, it will be recorded and you can notify the supplier directly using the app.

Reporting

We collect all the documentation necessary for the FAVV in the app for you, so that you can easily pull up the reports for audits. The report is sent to your email in PDF format and includes all the documents that the FAVV needs to audit your business.

PestGuard

Unlike other suppliers, Quality Guard uses electronic mousetraps. When a mouse is caught, you will receive a notification in the app immediately. You can dispose of the mouse yourself and save on pest control costs.

Cuts

This module makes it very easy to label your fresh meat cuts with their batch or Sanitel number, packaging date and expiry date. You can save names and quantities in the app to speed up the process further next time.

Allergens and nutritional values

You can use the recipe module to compile recipes with your own raw materials. Quality Guard pulls up the technical data for each of the raw materials (allergens, nutritional values, composition, etc.). This gives you a rapid, accurate analysis of the allergens and nutritional values of your own products.

Delivery module

Easily draw up delivery notes and order receipts, automatically linked to the correct batch numbers.

Temperature recording

Monitor product temperatures with wireless temperature sensors in your deep freezes and chillers. If the temperature isn’t optimal, you’ll receive an automatic email or SMS alert.

Task management

Assign your staff regular tasks, linked to instructions . That way, you can work more efficiently and maintain an overview of everybody’s assigned tasks.

Online shop

Place orders for raw materials with an individual code. You can inform your employees immediately about which raw materials need to be ordered.

Print labels and product information sheets

Print labels for all packaging formats at the touch of a button. Use the label printer installed by Quality Guard, or export allergen information and nutritional values to your packing machines, scales or tills.

Recipe book

Manage your recipes with our convenient digital tool. Quality Guard adds all your suppliers and the products you get from them to the app. That way, accurate allergen and nutritional information is linked to your own recipes.

Take a look at all the other possibilities!