Food License ( FSSAI LICENSE ) (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)
The FSSAI is an administrative body tasked with ensuring food safety in India. The FSSAI registration was created at the central level, to ensure that food products …being sold in the Indian marketplace would adhere to a set of guidelines and regulations at any given time. The term FSSAI is an acronym for ‘Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’.
The FSSAI is an autonomous body. This department operates under the Ministry of Public Health, which operates under the central government of India. The department is, a part of the central government of India, and whose oversight extends all across the territory of India, with regard to issues concerning food licensing.
The main goal of FSSAI registration was to ensure public health, through a mechanism of regulation and supervision of food safety in the country. The department issues licenses to various businesses based on an FSSAI fee. The FSSAI fee is paid at the time of registration, and the subsequent number issued is printed on their product or mentioned in a prominent place, for the general public.
The legal backing used by the Ministry of Public health is the ‘Food Safety & Standards Act, 2006’, a law passed to ensure the safety of food products, through the enforcement of necessary standards and regulations. All of the licenses issued by the FSSAI are issued under this law, if one were to apply for a food license in India.
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To obtain FSSAI Food Registration Certificate, the following are the requirements:-
- Any Food Business Operator with an annual turnover Up to 0 to Rs. 12 Lakh.
- Minor retailer dealing in food products
- Any person who manufactures or sells any food article by own
- Food sale is done by the limited stall holder
- Any individual who distributes food in any spiritual or social gathering except a caterer.
- If you want to sell food product online then required the FSSAI Food Registration Certificate (Zomato, Swiggy, Foodpanda, Amazon, Paytm, Flipkart, etc.)
To obtain FSSAI Food Registration, the following documents are the requirements:-
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Firm name / Company name
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PAN card soft copy (Individual / Proprietor / Partner / Director)
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Aadhaar card soft copy (Individual / Proprietor / Partner / Director)
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Photo (Individual / Proprietor / Partner / Director)
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Email id and Mobile number
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Full address with pin code
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Business type (Wholesaler / Retailer / Distributor / Restaurant / Hotel)
To obtain FSSAI Food Registration, the below stated procedure is followed:-
- FSSAI Registration is started by submitting Form A to food and safety department.
- This application may be accepted or it may be rejected by the Department within 1 hour from the application time and the fact has to be suggested to the applicant in writing
- If the application is accepted, then the department will permit a registration certificate with the registration number and the photo of the applicant.
- Food Business Operators should particularly display the certificate of registration at the place of business during the business hours.
The following are the benefits of obtaining FSSAI Food Registration Certificate:-
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Consumer awareness
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FSSAI logo benefit
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Business expansion
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Legal edge
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Improved customer base
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Business Image
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Online sell your food products
Consumer awareness
FSSAI logo benefit
Business expansion
Legal edge
Improved customer base
Business Image
Online sell your food products
Some of the types of entities that require FSSAI state license are:
- Hotel providing lodging, meals and other guest services – upto four star rating.
- Restaurants and bars having turnover of upto Rs.20 crores per year
- Club/Canteen
- Caterers having turnover of upto Rs.20 crores per year
- Food vending agencies having upto 100 vending machines in only 1 state
- Mid day meal caterers having turnover of upto Rs.20 crores
- Mid day meal canteens having turnover of more than Rs.12 lakhs per year
- Food product marketers with a turnover of upto Rs.20 crores per year
- Food retailers with a turnover of upto Rs.20 crores per year
- Food suppliers with a turnover of upto Rs.20 crores per year
- Food product distributors with a turnover of upto Rs.20 crores per year
- Food product wholesales with a turnover of upto Rs.30 crores per year
- Food transporters having upto 100 vehicles and a turnover of upto Rs.30 crores per year
- Dairy units processing over 500 liters of milk per day or 2.5 MT of milk solids per year
- Vegetable oil processing units with turnover of more than Rs.12 lakhs per year
- Slaughter house processing more than 50 poultry birds or 11 small animals or 3 large animals
- Meat processing unit with a capacity of more than 500kg of meat per day or 150 MT of meat per year
- All grains, cereals, pulses milling units without any limit on production capacity
- Food manufacturing or processing or packing unit with turnover of more than Rs.12 lakhs per year or production capacity of more than 100kg or 100 liters per day
- Cold storage unit with turnover of more than Rs.12 lakhs per year
- Cold + Atmospheric Controlled Storage with turnover of more than Rs.12 lakhs per year
- Storage unit with turnover of more than Rs.12 lakhs per year
Some of the types of entities that require FSSAI Central License are:
- Five-star hotels
- Restaurants with a turnover of more than Rs.20 crores per year
- Caterers with a turnover of more than Rs.20 crores per year
- Food vending agencies with more than 100 vending machines or having machines in two or more states
- Food product importers
- Food product exporters
- Selling food products through e-commerce
- Registered office of food business operators having operations in two or more state
- Food business activity in premises belonging to Central Government Agencies
- Departmental Canteens at the premises belonging to Central Government Institutions
- Food business activity in Airport or Seaport
- Food business activity in Railway Stations
- Food product marketers with turnover of more than Rs.20 crores per year
- Food product retailers with turnover of more than Rs.20 crores per year
- Food product suppliers with turnover of more than Rs.20 crores per year
- Food product distributors with turnover of more than Rs.20 crores per year
- Food product wholesalers with turnover of more than Rs.30 crores per year
- Food product transporters with turnover of more than Rs.30 crores per year and having more than 100 vehicles
- Proprietary or novel food manufacturers
- Mid-day meal caterers with a turnover of more than Rs.20 crores per year
- Food manufacturing or processing or packing unit with a production capacity of more than 2MT per day
- Dairy units with capacity to process more than 50,000 liters of milk per day or more than 2500MT of milk solids per year
- Vegetable oil processing units with a processing capacity of more than 2MT per day
- Slaughtering house with a capacity to process over 1000 birds or 150 small animals or 50 large animals per day
- Meat processing units with processing capacity of more than 500kg of meat per day or 150MT of meat per annum
- Cold storage units with a capacity of more than 10,000 MT
- Cold storage that is atmospheric controlled with a capacity of more than 1000 MT
- Food storage with a capacity of more than 50,000 MT
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