FSSAI  Registration:-

(1) This Act may be called the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.

(2) It extends to the whole of India.

(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in

the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of

this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be

construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.

Declaration as to expediency of control by the Union.

It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under

Definitions and Information of FSSAI Registration:- 

(a) "adulterant" signifies any material which is or could be utilized for making the nourishment dangerous or unsatisfactory or mis-marked or containing unessential issue;

(b) "promotion" signifies any sound or visual exposure, portrayal or profession made by methods for any light, stable, smoke, gas, print, electronic media, web or site and incorporates through any notification, round, mark, wrapper, receipt or different records;

(c) "Director" signifies the Chairperson of the Food Authority;

(d) "guarantee" signifies any portrayal which states, recommends, or infers that a nourishment has specific characteristics identifying with its birthplace, nourishing properties, nature, preparing, creation or something else;

(e) "Magistrate of Food Safety" signifies the Commissioner of Food Safety selected under area 30;

(f) "purchaser" signifies people and families buying and getting nourishment so as to meet their own needs;

(g) "contaminant" signifies any substance, regardless of whether added to nourishment, however which is present in such nourishment because of the creation (counting tasks did in crop cultivation, creature farming or veterinary medication), make, handling, readiness, treatment, pressing, bundling, transport or holding of such nourishment or as a aftereffect of natural tainting and does exclude bug pieces, rat  hairs and different incidental issue;

(h) "Assigned Officer" signifies the official selected under area 36;

(I) "unessential issue" signifies any issue contained in an article of nourishment which may be conveyed from the crude materials, bundling materials or procedure frameworks utilized for its production or which is added to it, however such issue doesn't render such article of nourishment perilous;

(j) "Food" signifies any substance, regardless of whether handled, somewhat prepared or natural, which is planned for human utilization and incorporates essential nourishment to the degree characterized in condition (zk), hereditarily adjusted or built nourishment or nourishment containing such fixings, baby nourishment, bundled drinking water, mixed beverage, biting gum, and any substance, including water utilized into the nourishment during its  assembling, planning or treatment yet does exclude any creature feed, live creatures except if they are arranged or handled for setting available for human utilization, plants, before collecting, drugs and restorative items, beautifying agents, opiate or psychotropic substances :

 Given that the Central Government may announce, by notice in the Official Gazette, some other article as nourishment for the motivations behind this Act having respects to its utilization, nature, substance or quality

(k) “food additive” means any substance not normally consumed as a food by itself

or used as a typical ingredient of the food, whether or not it has nutritive value, the

intentional addition of which to food for a technological (including organoleptic)

purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging,

transport or holding of such food results, or may be reasonably expected to result

(directly or indirectly), in it or its by-products becoming a component of or otherwise

affecting the characteristics of such food but does not include “contaminants” or

substances added to food for maintaining or improving nutritional qualities;

(l) “Food Analyst” means an analyst appointed under section45;

(m) “Food Authority” means the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

established under section 4;

(n) “Food business” means any undertaking, whether for profit or not and whether

public or private, carrying out any of the activities related to any stage of

manufacture, processing, packaging, storage, transportation, distribution of food,

import and includes food services, catering services, sale of food or food ingredients;

(o) “food business operator” in relation to food business means a person by whom the

business is carried on or owned and is responsible for ensuring the compliance of this

Act, rules and regulations made thereunder;

(p) “food laboratory” means any food laboratory or institute established by the Central

or a State Government or any other agency and accredited by National Accreditation

Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories or an equivalent accreditation agency

and recognised by the Food Authority under section 43;

(q) “food safety” means assurance that food is acceptable for human consumption

according to its intended use;

(r) “food safety audit” means a systematic and functionally independent examination

of food safety measures adopted by manufacturing units to determine whether such

measures and related results meet with objectives of food safety and the claims made

in that behalf;

(s) “Food Safety Management System” means the adoption Good Manufacturing

Practices, Good Hygienic Practices, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point and

such other practices as may be specified by regulation, for the food business;

(t) “Food Safety Officer” means an officer appointed under section 37;

(u) “hazard” means a biological, chemical or physical agent in, or condition of, food

with the potential to cause an adverse health effect;

(v) “import” means bringing into India any article of food by land, sea or air;

(w) “improvement notice” means a notice issued under section 32 of this Act;

(x) “infant food” and “infant milk substitute” shall have the meanings assigned to

them in clauses (f) and (g) of subsection (l) of section 2 of the Infant Milk Substitutes,

Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution)

Act, 1992(41 of 1992), respectively;

(y) “ingredient” means any substance, including a food additive used in the

manufacture or preparation of food and present in the final product, possibly in a

modified form;

(z) “label” means any tag, brand, mark, pictorial or other descriptive matter, written,

printed, stencilled, marked, embossed, graphic, perforated, stamped or impressed on

or attached to container, cover, lid or crown of any food package and includes a

product insert.