Summary:
The long-standing Bakery Industry Sanitation Standards Committee (BISSC) has sunset. BEAG was established to carry the work forward, modernizing processes, clarifying requirements, and elevating confidence in bakery equipment conformance.
Why the transition?
As bakery operations adopted new materials, automation, and food safety expectations, the industry needed a next-generation framework that could move faster on updates, provide clearer guidance, align with current standards, and offer a transparent pathway
that buyers trust. BEAG was created to meet those needs by streamlining how sanitary, safety, and performance expectations are interpreted and verified for bakery equipment.
What BEAG is (and isn’t)
- BEAG is a dedicated, industry-backed group focused on evaluating bakery equipment against recognized criteria and good manufacturing practices relevant to hygienic design and safe operation.
- BEAG is not a simple name change, it's a modernization of governance, review methods, and communications to fit today’s market.
- BEAG is associated with ASB (American Society of Baking), strengthening the connection between assessment and the professional community that builds and operates bakery lines.
Continuity of purpose
The goal remains the same: give bakeries a reliable way to know whether equipment is designed and built to appropriate sanitary and safety expectations, and give manufacturers a clear pathway to demonstrate that rigor. The transition preserves that purpose
while improving how requirements are interpreted, documented, and communicated.
“Clarity, speed, and trust, that’s what this transition delivers for bakers and OEMs alike.”
What changes for equipment manufacturers?
- A clearer pathway to recognition with explicit expectations, required evidence, and consistent feedback.
- Modernized criteria and documentation written for today’s materials, guarding, wiring, and cleanability considerations.
- Stronger buyer confidence that reduces surprises at commissioning.
- Lifecycle support from initial design reviews to post-installation clarifications.
What changes for bakeries and buyers?
- Clearer signals in procurement to compare options and understand alignment to current expectations.
- Easier audit alignment with fewer corrective actions related to sanitary design.
- More transparency explaining why features matter (surface finish, weld quality, ingress protection, access for cleaning).
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