FSSAI License
- • The term FSSAI is an acronym for ‘Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’. The FSSAI is a governmental 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. In other words, the main goal of an 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 on the basis of 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 FSSAI was established as an independent autonomous body, under the Ministry of Public Health, for the purpose of regulating the food licensing process in the country. 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.
https://www.fssai.gov.in/
Food Safety and Standards Regulations
- • 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 (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
- • Food Safety and Standards (Safe food and balanced diets for children in school) Regulations, 2020
- • Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Regulations, 2020
- • Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020
- • Food Safety and Standards (Ayurveda Aahara) Regulations, 2022
- • Food Safety and Standards (Vegan Foods) Regulations, 2022
