A food warehouse adds no value and takes no kill step — it simply holds product while time passes and temperature drifts. When stock rotation fails, allergens share racking with open ingredients, or a frozen chamber quietly loses two degrees overnight, the warehouse becomes the reason a compliant product reaches the market unsafe.
Why Warehousing Deserves More Than a Padlock
Modern audits examine the three kinds of warehouse — ordinary, cooling and freezing — plus segregation of chemicals, odours, allergens and raw versus ready-to-eat goods, receipt and dispatch discipline, previous-load rules on shared vehicles, and food defence and fraud controls. Most facilities can show none of it in writing.
What the AGS Warehouse Guideline Covers
Thirty-eight chapters and six annexes aligned with the storage and transport provisions of Codex and ISO 22000:
- The three kinds of warehouse and their construction requirements
- Stock rotation, date control and damaged, returned and held stock
- Segregation matrix — chemicals, odour, allergens, raw and ready-to-eat
- Cold chain integrity, loading rules and shared vehicles
- Food defence and food fraud
- Storage regime tables, clearances and an inspection checklist
Annex B holds the operating numbers: the three temperature regimes in store and in transit, storage clearances and dimensions, a segregation matrix and defined temperature verification points. Annexes C through F add the establishment inspection checklist, cleaning rules for chilled and frozen rooms, the Codex/ISO 22000 conformance map and the jurisdictional adaptation register.
Who It Helps
Warehouse and distribution operators, cold-store managers, logistics and QA teams, and inspectors auditing storage facilities. Third-party logistics providers can offer it to clients as evidence of a controlled operation.
Get the Guideline
Get the Food Materials Warehouses guideline from AGS — instant digital download, fully editable Microsoft Word, ready to turn your warehouse from a blind spot into a controlled link. 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 Food Materials Warehouses — available as an instant-download, fully editable package from AGS (SKU AGS-03-018).