FSSAI stands for Food Security Standards Authority of India. The Food Safety and Security Act 2006. It was established under the Food Safety and Security Act 2006 and regulates various laws under it. An individual starting a small food business has to get his products checked and inspected. It is necessary for the entities involved in packaging, storing, manufacturing, distributing or selling of any kind of food-related products. The FSSAI’s head office is in Delhi. Under FSSAI, many home-based bakery shops are thriving in business. You should take this opportunity to take a look at how you can start your own home-based bakery with registration. Getting FSSAI Registration is not a very hard procedure. You can get FSSAI registration in less than 15 days.

FSSAI Product approval procedure:

  •  Food products which are safe and if the ingredients in them are mentioned under the RSS Regulation, 2011/Codex and other regulatory bodies like EU/FSANZ/USFDA etc + if the product does NOT contain any animal compounds they are granted approval.
  •  The application shall be submitted along with the affidavit which is to be deposited by the person/trader.
  •  The authorities shall conduct an extensive investigation of the application and documents. The products will be approved only after the products quality is satisfactory
  •  Under the strict guidelines published by FSSAI, the products which are standardized will not require any further assessment except for the check of the ingredients in the product. Standardized goods are those goods that generally don’t need any approval before manufacturing, selling and distributing food products!
  •  If the application is rejected under the approval procedure, the product would be recalled according to the provisions that are governed by FSS.
  •  If the ingredients of the product come from a banned source the approval procedure will not be applicable for such products.
  •  Products imported into India will also be applicable for the procedure.
  •  To get the food approval the person whose operating the good business should make an application amounted to 26000 (nonrefundable) in the form of demand draft.

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