1. Dairy unit that processes 500 to 50000 liters of milk per day or sells less than 2500 MT of milk per year

2. Units that process or produce vegetable oil with a daily production capacity of up to 2 MT

3. Slaughtering units with a size of more than 2 and up to 50 for large animals; more than 10 and up to 150 for small animals; and more than 50 and up to 3000 for poultry birds each day.

4. Food business engaged in the activity of meat processing, capacity upto 500 Kg daily or 150 MT annually

5. The food processing unit engaged in wholesale having a turnover upto INR 30 Crores

6. Food business dealing in retail or distribution having a turnover upto INR 20 Crores

7. Restaurants that have a turnover of upto Rs. 20 Crores

8. Hotels that have a turnover of upto Rs. 20 Crores

9. Units engaged in processing plants including re-labellers, re-packers and producing units upto 2 MT per day.

1. FBOs like restaurants, retailers, distributors, and suppliers with an annual turnover of more than ₹20 Crores.

2. Units for producing and processing vegetable oil using the solvent extraction method, as well as factories with oil expelled units, with a capacity of more than 2 metric tonnes per day.

3. Dhaba, club, canteen, and other food vending establishments with branches spread in more than one state and an annual turnover of more than ₹12 Lakhs.

4. Wholesalers that have an annual turnover of not less than ₹30 Crores.

5. Hotels with rating 5-star or more.

6. 300% export oriented units involved in food production or processing.

7. All importers including the import of food ingredients or additives.

8. Caterers working under Central Government or related agencies such as Railways, Airlines and airport, Seaport, Defense, etc.

9. Storage with a capacity of more than 50,000 metric tonnes,

10. Dairy Units (including chilling units), with a capacity to handle or process, over 50,000 liters per day,

11. A slaughtering capacity of over 50 large animals or more than 150 small animals or more than 3000 poultry birds per day.

12. Controlled Atmosphere + Cold Storage with the capacity of 1,000 MT or more.

13. Transporters with more than 300 vehicles. Or turnover of more than ₹30 crores per annum.

14. All food processing units including re-packers and excluding the grains, pulses & cereals milling units with a capacity of over 2 metric tonnes per day.

15. All FBOs involved in producing an item of food, additive or its ingredient, using some new process or technology, and/or a combination thereof, whose safety has not been established yet by the FSSAI.

Application will reach out to the Registering Authority and it may accept or reject, with proper reason in writing for your application. If they accept your registration then it would move to the next stage. But if they reject your application, they would order notice for inspection of your food business. After inspection of the documents and application, the department officials may visit the business premise to inspect whether the food business conforms to the standards and guidelines as per the provisions of the FSS Act.

Post-inspection of documents and business premise, the application will be approved by the Registering Authority and then it will proceed to the next stage which is issuance of FSSAI License or Certificate.

After approval from the Registering Authority, registration certificate or food license is issued and the soft copy is sent to the registered email of the applicant. You can check your Food License status using our FSSAI License Checker tool.