{"product_id":"ags-international-technical-guidelines-pack-food-storage-store-management","title":"International Technical Guidelines Pack - Food Storage \u0026 Store Management","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA store is inspected twice: once as a building, once as an operation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eOverview\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe building requirements are adapted from UAE.S GSO 168, Requirements for Storage Facilities of Dry and Canned Foodstuffs, and they give a licensing inspector figures to check rather than adjectives to interpret: a minimum ceiling height, clearance distances around stock, 110-lux uniform lighting, cleanable floors, fire-resistant construction and a prohibition on asbestos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe management side is adapted from a national Good Store Management Practices manual written for strategic food security reserves, and its organising idea is the stack. The stack carries the identity, holds the record, and is what gets inspected, segregated or treated when something is found wrong with it. Zoning, internal layout, sanitation and the recurring management gaps the manual names all describe how stacks are kept apart, kept dry and kept accounted for, which is the problem any operator holding dry and canned stock has to solve, whether the stock belongs to a national reserve or to a customer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat this system covers\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSite selection — the sources a food store must be sited away from, and road access to the premises\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConstruction and fabric — fire-resistant materials, the asbestos prohibition, ceiling height and cleanable floors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLighting and clearances — the 110-lux uniform lighting requirement and clearance distances around stored goods\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeterioration and substitution — the three hazard types, and the spoilage, adulteration and food fraud a stack is inspected and treated for\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStack-based stock control — the stack as the unit of identity, record and treatment across the store\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBarrier zones, layout and sanitation — location, internal structures, water, drainage and waste\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecurring management gaps — the eight weaknesses that show up in reserve store operation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarehouse and distribution operators, food security reserve agencies, dry and canned goods importers, and the facility auditors and inspectors responsible for storage licensing. The building requirements are wanted first, at licensing, when someone is standing in the aisle with a tape measure and a light meter; the management practices are wanted afterwards, month after month, once stock has sat long enough for storage discipline to show in the condition of the stack. Both are editable, so a commercial warehouse can take up reserve-store practice without running a reserve programme.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apex Global Solutions AGS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56792712577364,"sku":"AGS-04-022","price":290.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/4996\/4372\/files\/AGS-04-008_08_Storage_Handling.png?v=1786639546","url":"https:\/\/agskits.com\/products\/ags-international-technical-guidelines-pack-food-storage-store-management","provider":"Apex Global Solutions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}