The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India on 23rd March 2022 has notified the guidelines for enrolment of Non-Food Production Units (NFP) such as manufacturers of biodiesel, soap etc for collection of used cooking oil from the FBOs across India. The NFP units intending to collect used cooked oils (UCO) from FBOs shall submit application to FSSAI along with requisite documents in the format provided in the guidelines.
Food Business Operator is at liberty to provide UCO to any aggregator/collection agency authorized by FSSAI enrolled NFP units. FSSAI reserves the right to get the NFP unit inspected through its regulatory officials or officials from Regional Offices or Food Safety Departments of State/UT or any other authorized agency from time to time to ensure compliance with the directions issued by FSSAI. In case of violation, suitable action will be taken against the enrolled NFP unit and/or the collection agency/aggregator as per provisions of FSS Act, 2006, or any other law, as applicable including cancellation of the enrolment.
The authorized aggregator/collection agency shall also ensure that the UCO collected from the food business operators is supplied only to the NFP units enrolled by FSSAI and under no circumstance is supplied back to food supply chain or resold to FBOs.
Further the UCO collected from the FBOs is only used for manufacture of biodiesel/soap/other non-food products as approved by FSSAI and no other purpose.
