Removing Thousands of the Food Joints from the Delivery Apps
Food delivery apps that are leading in the market, some of them are Zomato, Food Panda, Swiggy and Uber Eats have removed thousands of restaurants from the market, aggregating around 10,000 in total from their restaurants listing. We have thoroughly examined about the reasons why these restaurants needed to face such a thing and came down with some of the important points and also for the reason for the delisting of the restaurants form the food businesses, and the importance of acquiring of the food license number commonly known as the FSSAI License among the food industry, and here are we are about to discuss about how to procure a license for your restaurant.
The FSSAI product approval is a process of getting approval from the FSSAI (Food Safety and Standard Authority of India) department. The FSSAI product approval is required for the products that contains the ingredients along with / or additives and setting up a company that are not as per the standards that are prescribed in the Food Safety and Standards Act and Regulations. The FSSAI product approval is granted by the Central Government of India and in this article let’s discuss about the procedures that are involved in obtaining of the product approval.
The Issue
Few years back, where the world without food delivery apps the customers were able to get a chance to look at the restaurants and were able to find out whether the restaurants has a FSSAI number on its menu cards or even on the billboards. But now, due to the online food delivery and the luxury of receiving food at our doorstep, our choices are limited to the fancy images and the ratings given by the other users or by other leading apps that leaves hardly a small space for us to inspect about the restaurants and their cooking procedures and also their hygiene, and their standards of cooking, and storage as well.
Since this has made way to a huge risk and many of the e-commerce food apps conducted surveys on the standards based on the Internal Food Safety Audit on their restaurant and the partners of the hotels across the 34 cities where their presence are found and the shocking fact is many of these restaurants are failing to meet the compliances that are prescribed by the FSSAI. The FSSAI, which is the regulatory body then reviewed the list of restaurants that are banned from being partners with the online apps are available to the state FSSAI bodies that are respective for taking necessary actions.
Information that is required for the FSSAI Product Approval
These are the items that need to be checked before applying for a FSSAI product approval.
- Name of the Business
- Address of the Business
- Respective Email
- Active Phone Number
- Address of the Manufacturers
- Type of the Business (Marketer / Importer / Retailer / Manufacturer)
- Origin of the Product
- Origin Country of the of the Product
- Market Existence
- Common given name
- Name of the Brand
- Manufacturing Method
- Claims, if any
- Product’s shelf life
- Size of the Pack
- Details of the Service
- Details of the ingredients
Apart from the above-mentioned details, these are the additional documents that need to be submitted for the approval of the FSSAI.
- Label for the product
- Method that is used for the manufacturing
- Datasheet that is accelerated for the stability
- Datasheet for the real-time stability
- Declaration for the end use document
- Certificate for the NABL Lab Analysis
- Undertaking of Form – 9
Getting a license – What you should know
Many of the e-commerce apps have stated in their public releases that when the restaurants provide their FSSAI licenses, they will be again enabled for the online services, making a procurement of the license and the compelling need of the hours. A basic registration needs to be done by everyone operating the food business that is having a annual turnover upto INR 120,000. Every business in the food industry, regardless of their type of services such as, retailers, transporter, manufacturers, and distributors will mandatorily requires a license.
For those businesses that has a turnover above INR 120,000 but not more than 200 million a state license is mandatorily required that can be obtained by filling the respective form that is prescribed. For the businesses that generates more than 200 million would require to own a license provided by the Central Government. These licenses needs to be acquired from the respective departments of the government and the food apps are very precisely monitoring this in order to provide most reliable services to the customers.
Author Bio:
Gaurika Singri is our Technical Writer, who takes care of the Technical Document preparation. Dynocro Consulting is a business registration company that concentrates on helping entrepreneurs to start their business and also to register their businesses. Gaurika handles a lot of documentation process in our company, who helps to breaks down the complex problems and turns into easy comprehensive documents.