The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India vide its order dated 16th September 2021 has notified that all existing State Licensed FBOs having license for the food products under Food Safety and Standards (Health Supplements, Nutraceuticals, Food for Special Dietary Use, Food for Special Medical Purpose, Functional Food and Novel Food) Regulations, 2016 shall migrate to Central License with a modification fee of Rs. 1000 and the payment of the differential amount between State License fee and Central License fee for remaining number of complete years of validity of their existing licenses by 31st December 2021.
Further, State Licensed FBOs manufacturing products under Nutraceutical Regulations shall not be able to apply for renewal of their license after 31st December 2021.
All existing applications for new/modification licenses [under processing) with State Licensing Authorities shall stand rejected and fee paid shall be refunded to the concerned FBOs in such cases. Such FBOs shall be required to resubmit the application with full fee to the concerned Central Licensing Authorities.
At Present, the food businesses operators (FBOs) manufacturing products covered under FSS (Health Supplements, Nutraceuticals, Food for Special Dietary Use, Food for Special Medical Purpose, Functional Food and Novel Food) Regulations, 2016 are being licensed by the State as well as the Central Licensing Authorities under the General manufacturing i.e. FBOs having production capacity of 2MT per day are eligible for State License while FBOs having production capacity of more than 2MT per day are eligible for Central License.
