{"id":2079,"date":"2016-03-27T13:37:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/?page_id=2079"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:45:36","slug":"quality-products","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/the-production\/grain-fed-veal\/quality-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Product Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Product Quality<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Quebec, grain-fed cattle farming is governed by a mandatory on-farm certification program : the <a href=\"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/sustainable-cattle\/social\/veau-verifie-et-vgqc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quebec Certified Grain-Fed Veal program<\/a>. It integrates all the requirements of the Verified Veal program, the Canadian On-Farm Food Safety Program for veal production,&nbsp; as well as additional criteria for the selection of young calves, calf-rearing sites, animal welfare and feeding of grain-fed calves. The program contains a total of almost 80 criteria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To guarantee the impartiality of the certification process, control of compliance with the program is entrusted to external auditors. These auditors verify compliance with each of the criteria based on a cycle that involves external, internal and random audits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The producers\u2019 commitment to the certification program is broader-based than simply obtaining a certificate: it involves adherence to a certification of origin and a quality concept that commits grain-fed veal producers to respond to market and consumer expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since April 2004, grain-fed calves produced in Quebec do not receive growth hormones. This very strict requirement is prescribed in the producers&#8217; specifications. Health Canada also oversees its application through the inspection service of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Product Quality In Quebec, grain-fed cattle farming is governed by a mandatory on-farm certification program : the Quebec Certified Grain-Fed Veal program. It integrates all the requirements of the Verified Veal program, the Canadian On-Farm Food Safety Program for veal production,&nbsp; as well as additional criteria for the selection of young calves, calf-rearing sites, animal [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":642,"parent":1793,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2079","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29700,"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079\/revisions\/29700"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}