Awards

International Food Standard IFS

The ADLER headquarters located in Bonndorf and the branch in Achern comply with the highest possible “Higher Level” standards, required for the IFS (International Food Standard) certification.

ADLER is the third German company to receive certification and allowance for exporting Black Forest ham into the US.

Earning A marks, the Achern branch (Schinkenhof GmbH und Co. KG) passed the BRC (British Retail Consortium) certification process.

Certificate for “Quality and Safety“

ADLER in Bonndorf is also certified for compliance with the QS criteria for meat and meat products in the category of “Slaughter and Portioning”.

Protection of Origin “Black Forest ham g.g.A.“

In 1997, the European Union registered the “Black Forest ham” as a PGI (protected geographic indication) for the protection and promotion of special typical regional products and foods with designation of origin.

Dr. Hansjörg Adler was significantly involved in making the protection of origin for Black Forest ham a reliable and relevant label. Since installing this regulation, only products that meet the criteria are entitled to be labelled “Black Forest ham”.

Strict and independent inspections that are conducted every year – for example the quality competition of the Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft (DLG) (German Agricultural Society) – confirm the top quality of ADLER’s culinary delights.

Numerous awards (the DLG-Best of the Best in Gold among others) and the products have turned the specialist for sausage and ham originating from the Black Forest into an outstanding company of the German food industry.

For numerous years ADLER has successfully been asserting itself against all of its competitors in the field of dry-cured ham and was awarded first place by the DLG as the “best dry-cured ham manufacturer in Germany”.

Best of the Best Award (DLG)

ADLER received the “Best of the Best Gold 2009” award from the DLG. Only companies that have been awarded the highest DLG-awards for 15 years in a row without any interruption are granted this award. This prize clearly emphasises the higher than average quality standard of the manufactured products. Thus the DLG confirms that Adler is one of the very best companies in the German food industry.

DLG-Awards

In 2011 Adler won awards from the “Deutsche Landwirtschaftsgesellschaft” (German Agricultural Association) for the following products: