Quality management in the meatchain.

Due to several developments Dutch meatindustry is facing an increasing competition.To meet new demands the meat chain has to be restructured.This means a new approach of the concept of quality.This problem is considered as a managerial problem therefore a managementmodel is introduced to manage this process.The essence of this model is to adjust the organization to the product and its processingstages.Also is argued that a chain of organizations is to some extent similar to an individual organization, therefore the same managementtools can be used.The adjustment of the porkmeatchain in order to meet the new demands is described by using this model.Special attention is paid to Integrated Quality Control.Finally the model is used to analyze quality management in the porkmeatchain.Both the model and IQC are discussed.