3-A Sanitary Standards, Inc. (3-A SSI) is a non-profit association representing equipment manufacturers, processors, regulatory sanitarians and other public health professionals. Through many decades of cooperation, these groups have established a comprehensive inventory of 3-A Sanitary Standards and 3-A Accepted Practices now known around the world for dairy and food processing equipment and systems.

3-A SSI today is committed to advancing the state of art for hygienic equipment design to meet the fast-changing needs of the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. 3-A SSI represents the new 'nexus' for:

• The developments of standards and other consensus documents,
• Oversight of the 3-A Symbol and a Third Party Verification inspection program, and
• Workshops and high value knowledge resources on hygienic equipment design.