3-A Sanitary Standards, Inc. (3-A SSI) is an independent, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to advancing hygienic equipment design for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. 3-A SSI represents the interests of three stakeholder groups with a common commitment to promoting food safety and the public health—regulatory sanitarians, equipment fabricators and processors.
Today’s 3-A SSI:
- Leads the development of modern consensus standards for equipment and accepted practices for processing systems.
- Oversees licensing of the 3-A Symbol—for sanitary design integrity you can trust!
- Administers the Third Party Verification (TPV) inspection programs required for the 3-A Symbol Authorization and other voluntary certificates of conformance for equipment design and performance.
- Provides special ‘knowledge resources’ to promote the understanding of sanitary equipment design.
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