What Type of FSSAI License Do I Require to Sell Food Online?

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Yes! It is mandatory to get a FSSAI license for every Food-related business in India, whether you sell online or offline.
Being supreme agency, the Food Standards and Safety Authority of India or FSSAI is responsible for controlling and supervising food safety. The FSSAI is responsible for managing and controlling the nutrition security.

There is a common misunderstanding or confusing usually among the Eatable Stuff Business Operators whether FSSAI license is required to run all types of Eatables businesses like small food business, selling food in truck, selling eatables online, homemade foods and so on. Therefore to make it clear, taking an FSSAI Registration is compulsory to start or to run any eatables business and getting a FSSAi License is depending on the turnover.



FSSAI consists of a 14-digit registration number or a License number which has to be printed on their food product packs. The prime obligation of FSSAI is to examine the Foodsuff safety that includes Nutrition of the food, fabrication, dissemination, stocking, dealing, and their importing properties.

The FSSAI is also creditworthy in creating an information network all over the nation to reach the public or consumers in such a way that to educate them with accurate information about food safety and its hygiene.

FSSAI licenses are of different types depending on the scale of food business, they are Central License, State License, and Basic Registration.

Basic FSSAI registration: This registration is the basic and it is for specifically for small scale food outlets and small foodstuff business operators.

It is not necessary to get a food standard license but registration is a must. Eatables business operators whose turnover is less than 12 lakhs, comes under this category. Nevertheless, obtaining registration is mandatory before starting any Eatables business.


FSSAI license: Getting FSSAI standard license is mandatory for medium and large Food Business Operators, only registration is not enough like in Small FBOs. The FBOs whose turnover is more than 12 lakhs are considered as Medium or large Foodstuff Business Operator.



There are two types of Food Standard Licenses are provided depending on the FBOs turnover, type of eatables business and area in which the foodstuff business is operated.

State License: This type of FSSAI License is issued by the State Government.
If the Area of eatables Business Operation is strictly comes under that state then state license is issued. To get this state license, the turnover of the foodstuff company must be within 12 lakhs to 20 crores. They are generically come in medium scale businesses category such as storage, supplier, wholesaler, distributor, foodstuff labelers, dairy units, caterer, and packers etc.



Central License: Central Government is responsible to issue this license to the eatables businesses whose turnover is more than 20 crores. Government Foodstuff agencies, import-export business of Foodstuff products, large scale foodstuff companies are comes under this category.
The foodstuff business that deals with only exporting should get this FSSAI Central license. The eatable business operators whose head office present in more than one state then they should also get Central License.

Manufacturing Capacity is also considered in this category, such as
The production quantity of food items (excluding milk, milk products, meat and meat products) should be less than 100kg in a day Procurement, handling, and collection of milk must be up to 500 kg per day. Slaughtering capacity of Foodstuff Business Operators should be less than 10 small animals or 2 large animals or 50 poultry birds per day.
Other than Manufacturers, the petty food business should get the FSSAI Registration for sure.



Now you all set to sell your food Products, right ? Well, The petty foodstuff business operator can be an individual or entity.








Name Of the Author: Ramya Tummala, I am Passionate Article Writer having Experience of 4 years in writing, Currently I am Working With Kanakkupillai - and as a Blogger






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