Biscuit plants feel safe — dry product, hot ovens, long shelf life. Then an audit finds no acrylamide strategy, wet cleaning where dry discipline was required, or an uncontrolled chocolate enrobing room, and a routine inspection becomes a corrective-action marathon. Dryness protects the product only when the plant is designed and run for it.
Why Biscuit Plants Need Their Own Rules
The oven creates its own contaminant — acrylamide — and the five manufacturing areas (washing, kneading, forming, baking, filling and covering) each carry different risks. Cream fillings and chocolate units reintroduce moisture and allergens into a dry plant, and every wash-down in the wrong place feeds mould and Salmonella.
What the AGS Biscuit Factory Guideline Covers
Fifty-three chapters and six annexes aligned with Codex CXC 67-2009 and CXC 75-2015, WHO guidance and ISO 22000:
- The seven sections and the five areas of the manufacturing section
- Flour and treatment agents, fats and the animal fat prohibition
- Baking, setting and a documented acrylamide mitigation strategy
- Cream filling, the chocolate unit and enrobing
- Dry cleaning and low-moisture discipline; packaging migration control
- Process tables, inspection checklist and Codex/ISO 22000 mapping
Because a biscuit plant must stay dry, Annex D separates dry cleaning — the default method throughout the plant — from controlled wet cleaning, the exception that must never become routine. Annex B adds the five-areas table, the acrylamide mitigation summary and the lighting and sanitary tables, while Annexes C, E and F supply the inspection checklist, Codex/ISO 22000 conformance map and jurisdictional adaptation register.
Who It Helps
Biscuit and wafer manufacturers, production and QA managers, factory designers, and auditors of low-moisture plants. Export-oriented factories gain a ready reference for buyer audits.
Get the Guideline
Get the Biscuit Factories guideline from AGS — an instant digital download in fully editable Microsoft Word format, ready to become your plant's technical backbone. Because it arrives as a Word document rather than a locked PDF, you can add your logo, adjust values to your jurisdiction and issue it as a controlled document within your own management system — no retyping, no reformatting.
Product: Biscuit Factories — available as an instant-download, fully editable package from AGS (SKU AGS-03-006).