Most food businesses do not fail for lack of standards — they fail from having too many, none of them theirs. A restaurant group audits sites against a checklist assembled from fragments; a factory quotes three codes that almost agree; a franchisor discovers every branch has interpreted 'hot holding' differently. What they all lack is a single house standard: compact enough to implement, complete enough to certify against.
A System, Proven Daily
FSS-01 is the reference standard of the AGS Food Safety Management Framework, issued in the AGS Food Safety Series under one motto: safe food is not an accident — it is a system, proven daily. It assigns leadership explicitly, from top management to a named Person in Charge with a responsibility matrix, so that when something fails, the question of whose job it was already has an answer.
From Premises to Plate
The standard runs the full operational chain in numbered clauses: legal compliance, design and construction of premises, water, ice and utilities, equipment and food contact materials, personal hygiene and handler health, training and competence, then receipt, storage, preparation and thawing, cooking against tabulated minimum core parameters, and hot and cold holding — including time as a control, not just temperature.
What the Pack Contains
One certifiable framework document:
- FSS-01 Food Safety Standard — the complete AGS reference standard
- Leadership clauses: top management, Person in Charge, responsibility matrix
- Tabulated minimum core cooking parameters (Table 14.1)
- Hot and cold holding with time-as-a-control provisions
- Scope, exclusions, terms and document control ready for adoption
Ready to close the gap? Every AGS pack is delivered as an instant digital download of fully editable Microsoft Word (.docx) files, complete with document control pages, contents tables and defined verbal forms. There is no waiting, no licensing negotiation and no locked PDF: rebrand the files, adapt them to your jurisdiction and your house style, and put them in front of your team the same day. Visit the AGS store and download the pack now — and turn a shelf of scattered standards into one working system.
Product: 14-Food Safety Standard — available as an instant-download, fully editable package from AGS (SKU AGS-04-014).