As per FSSAI, registration is mandatory for each and every food business operator(FSSAI calls them FBO). FSSAI Licence has three different categories Basic Registration, State Licence, Central Licence the eligibility of the licence altogether depends on two factors for service industry it is the turnover and for manufacturing or processing industry it is the production capacity of the unit. FSSAI has bifurcated FBO(food business operators altogether in following categories viz Dairy and Dairy processing, Food manufacturer who manufactures and sells the food products like biscuits and ready to eat products, processor like pickle, dry fruit maker will fall under this category, retailer is the any shop or establishment who has a retail outlet in india, same goes for wholesaler and distributor, even a transporter transporting the food needs to get a food licence, then there are storages and warehouses who also needs food licence or registration, basically any business or individual who handles or operates the food between farm to plate needs to obtain food licence.

First and foremost is FSSAI Basic Registration under which 80-85% of the businesses in India fall. The criteria for basic registration is businesses who are having turnover less than 12 lakhs or dairy having capacity less that 500 liters per day or daily manufacturing capacity less than 100kg per day needs to get basic FSSAI registration which includes wide range of businesses starting from small pan shops, tea stalls, home based food operators, small warehouses, canteen’s , mid day meal services and food processors.

The second kind of licence which is required is FSSAI State Licence, the businesses having turnover between 12 lakhs upto 20 crore which includes all the food business operators, manufacturing units having capacity upto 2 MT per day, Dairy units handling business upto 50000 liters per day, 3 star hotels and above, repackers and relebelling units, clubs canteens, all the catering business irrespective of their turnover needs to apply for State licence. Now once the licence is generated you’ll get a certificate in case you are in service industry you need to keep the licence in said premises, in case in manufacturing and processing industry needs to print the licence number on your food products.

Now the businesses which do not fall under the above two categories, they need to go for FSSAI Central Licence, the importer and exporters mandatorily needs central licence, in case you are in a business having multiple outlets across the country then you need to go for central licence fo your registered address and also need to get basic state or central licences depending on the turnover of each outlet.

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