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Regulations
Apart from the acts and rules following Food Safety and Standards Regulations are required to be complied with as far as applicable to them
Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulation, 2011
Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulation, 2011
Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction of Sales) Regulation, 2011
Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulation, 2011
Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, Toxins and Residues) Regulation, 2011
Food Safety and Standards (Laboratory and Sampling Analysis) Regulation, 2011
Food Safety and Standards (Health Supplements, Nutraceuticals, Food for Special Dietary Use, Food for Special Medical Purpose, Functional Food and Novel Food) Regulations, 2016
Food Safety and Standards (Food Recall Procedure) Regulation, 2017
Food Safety and Standards (Import) Regulation, 2017
Food Safety and Standards (Approval for Non-Specific Food and Food Ingredients) Regulation, 2017
Food Safety and Standards (Organic Food) Regulation, 2017
Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) Regulation, 2018
Food Safety and Standards (Fortification of Food) Regulation, 2018
Food Safety and Standards (Food Safety Auditing) Regulation, 2018
Food Safety and Standards (Recognition and Notification of Laboratories) Regulation, 2018
Food Safety and Standards (Advertising and Claims) Regulation, 2018
Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulation, 2018
Food Safety and Standards (Recovery and Distribution of Surplus food) Regulation, 2019
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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