Pasteurisation is a single moment of safety — everything after it is ready-to-eat product moving through a wet, warm plant where Listeria thrives. Dairies that cannot show validated pasteurisation, environmental monitoring and product-by-product controls fail audits regardless of how clean the floors look.
Why Dairies Face the Widest Audit Scope
A dairy is many factories in one: fluid milk, laban and fermented milks, labneh, cheese (including the sixty-day raw-milk rule), cream, butter and ice cream — each with its own Codex-linked requirements. Underneath run raw milk supplier control, residue limits, CIP systems and cold chains that all must be documented.
What the AGS Dairy Guideline Covers
Fifty-four chapters and six annexes aligned with Codex CXC 57-2004, the Codex dairy product standards and ISO 22000:
- Raw milk — farm and supplier control, residues, transport and receipt
- Validation and verification of pasteurisation; sterilised milk
- Product chapters: fermented milks, labneh, cheese, cream, butter, ice cream
- The sixty-day rule for raw milk cheese
- CIP cleaning and Listeria environmental monitoring
- Heat treatment tables, zoning, inspection checklist and Codex/ISO mapping
Annex B assembles the tables a dairy runs on — heat treatment and its verification, product-specific requirements, plant zoning, illuminance and sanitary provision — while Annex C provides the establishment inspection checklist and Annex D states the rules that govern every clean in a dairy. Annexes E and F add the Codex/ISO 22000 conformance map and the jurisdictional adaptation register.
Who It Helps
Dairy plant owners and managers, dairy technologists, QA and laboratory teams, and food-authority inspectors of milk processing facilities. Multi-product sites will value having every line's requirements in one document.
Get the Guideline
Download the Dairy Factories guideline from AGS — instant delivery in fully editable Microsoft Word format, ready to organise every product line under one defensible system. 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: INT Dairy Factories — available as an instant-download, fully editable package from AGS (SKU AGS-03-017).