This Code covers GMPs/GHPs for the manufacturing of low-moisture foods for human consumption. This Code applies to, dried fruits and vegetables (e.g. desiccated coconut), cereal-based products (e.g. breakfast cereals), peanut and other nut butters, dry protein products1 (e.g. dried dairy products and soy protein), confections (e.g. chocolate and cocoa), snacks (e.g. spice-seasoned chips/crisps), tree nuts, seeds for consumption (e.g. sesame seeds and sesame seed paste), spices and dried aromatic herbs, and specialized lipid based nutritional products2 for the treatment of moderate and severely acute malnutrition3. Milled grain products such as flour may be within the scope when used in foods that would not be subject to a microbial inactivation step.