scope:

These 3-A Accepted Practices shall pertain to the sanitary aspects of equipment in instantizing systems and include all equipment necessary for instantizing dry milk and dry milk products beginning with the equipment which receives the product to be instantized and terminating at the point the product is discharged to either the packaging system or storage. The instantizing systems include equipment used for moving and cleaning the air, heating and/or cooling air, conveying the product, moistening the product, additional drying of the product, removing the instantized product from the air and cooling the product.

In order to conform to these 3-A Accepted Practices, equipment in instantizing systems shall comply with the following criteria for design, material, fabrication, processing air and moistening medium¹.

¹ Use current revisions or editions of all referenced documents cited herein.