Browse all documents pertaining to 3-A SSI's work as a standards body.
With multiple producers of stainless steel around the world, ensuring proper material quality becomes particularly important. The presentations goes over material requirements, possible defects, and describes ways to assure stainless steel sheet quality.
Understanding interaction of product, pathogen and process variables is a prerequisite for food safety technology enablement. The presentation gives key facts on roasting as a method for pathogen inactivation, presents key takeaways from a specific study and goes over technology considerations for safe food processing.
With Hygienic Design for beginners in mind, this presentation is based on the 3-A Sanitary Standards for General Requirements document. Not only does it provides key requirements for materials of construction and components of equipment, but it is also filled with highly informative practical visuals to illustrate the key concepts.
This 2018 annual report covers 3-A's operations during 2017.
Certified Conformance Evaluator (CCE) status is achieved by satisfying a combination of defined education, experience, and examination requirements outlined in this document.
3-A Sanitary Standard for Machine Leveling Feet and Supports, Number 88-00
The 3-A SSI Interpretations Group (IG) met via Webinar Session on February 22, 2018 to discuss and rule on the December 17, 2016 Report of Alleged Nonconformance (RAN) submitted by Idaho Department of Agriculture.
This presentation will help you understand the different sub-types of stainless steel, modes of corrosive attack, environmental and metallurgical factors affecting the durability of stainless steel, as well as most common fabrication issues.
Balancing the fast-paced technology advancement with hygienic requirements for food processing equipment brings multple benefits, yet needs a though consideration. This presentation covers such topics as: secondary seal design for mechanical seals, innovations in seal face technology, overview of EHEDG mechanical seal guidelines and provides examples of hygienic design cartridge seals.
3-A Standards play an important role in FSMA preventive controls rules, have considerable benefits in commerce and are harmonized with other important regulations and guidelines, such as EHEDG. The presentation goes over specific benefits of obtaining 3-A Symbol.