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The optimum precautions to ensure safety and quality include the careful selection of the raw materials used to manufacture gelatine. The European gelatine manufacturers use only raw materials from healthy pigs, cattle, fish and poultry that have been examined by a vet. Furthermore, all GME member companies have been certified to ISO 9002. The gelatine manufacturing industry is one of the best structured and best controlled industries of all in Europe.
80 per cent of the edible gelatine produced in Europe is pure pig-skin gelatine. 15 per cent comes from cattle spit. This is the thin layer containing collagen between the upper skin and the subcutaneous layer. The remaining 5 per cent comes from pig and cattle bones, poultry and fish.
There are comprehensive European statutory regulations for the slaughter, the controls and the licensing procedure by governmental institutions. All raw materials are subject to continuous checks on safety and origin. The animals come only from approved slaughterhouses and are examined by vets. Only raw materials from animals approved for human consumption are used for the manufacture of gelatine. Or in other words, the meat the consumer buys and the raw material for gelatine comes from the same healthy animal.
Edible gelatine meets the requirements of the edible gelatine regulation and is also subject to food safety legislation.
Pharmaceutical gelatine must comply with the stringent requirements of the official pharmacopoeia.
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