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Food Safety Registrations

Overview
Registration
Documents Required
Validity
Compliance
Regulations
Others
Food Safety Mitra

Registration

 

There are primarily 3 types of registrations granted for food business operators. These are

  • Simple Registrations: Applicable to small vendors with annual turnover up to 12 Lakhs

  • State License: Applicable to mid-sized vendors

  • Central License: Applies to big vendors with the place of business in multiple states.

 

The type of registration applicable depends upon 

  • The type of business 

  • Annual turnover

  • Production capacity


Who is required to be registered


Basically every business operator dealing in eatables are required to be registered or licensed under FSSAI for regulation. 


If business is planning to do activitites which is related to food in any ways including 

  • Procurements

  • Manufacturing

  • Processing

  • Distribution

  • Packaging

  • Storing

  • Labelling or re-labelling



These businesses generally require registrations or license

  • Hotels

  • Wholeseller

  • Retailer of food items

  • Restaurants

  • Food sellers

  • Community kitchens

  • Canteen

  • Food importers and exporters

  • Packaged food manufacturers

  • Transporters of food items

  • Hawkers

  • Dabbawala, milk-man, street food vendors

  • E-commerce operators selling food items or alchohol

 

Following list illustrates the type of registration required for the kind of business


Overview

The government of India through the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has established the Food Safety Standards Authority of India for providing food safety-related services to the food business operators and citizens of our country.


The authority is working with the mission of setting global standards of food and encouraging and ensuring the business to follow these standards and adopt good hygiene and finally enabling the citizens to eat safe and eat right. The government has established various regulations to be followed by food business operators to achieve its objective.


Any business who is planning to start a business in which any eatables are produced, transported, stored, sold through retail or wholesale needs to get themselves registered with the authority and comply with the standards laid down. 


The license number alloted is of 14 digits with following significance

  • 1st : Wether the business is registered or not

  • 2-3: State code

  • 4-5: Year of enrollment 

  • 6-7: Quantity of enrolling master

  • 8-14: Permit Number


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