CCQI quality standard – The CCQI industry standard was jointly by the Cool Chain Association (CCA), an association of internationally operating companies within the cold chain, and the former Germanischer Lloyd (today DNV), a global classification society. The aim was to make the quality of the cold chain assessable and documented according to objective and globally valid standards and characteristics. CCQI stands for Cool Chain Quality Indicator and thus points to a special and truly innovative part of the management system: a quantitative quality assessment with a point system - the Quality Indicator. While conventional quality management systems are primarily satisfied with “checking off” individual requirements, the CCQI standard evaluates technical facilities, processes and competencies quantitatively. What is assessed is the prerequisites that a company has to be part of a link in the cold chain, e.g. B. during transport, storage or handling to meet certain requirements. The main thing here is to maintain a specified temperature range.