Complete guide to FSSAI Registration for 100+ food business types in India. Find exact documents, fees, and step-by-step process for your specific business.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) mandates that every food business operator (FBO) in India obtain a license or registration before starting operations. The type of license — Basic Registration, State License, or Central License — depends on your annual turnover and scale of operations. Browse the 100 guides below to find the exact requirements for your food business type.
Dine-in, fine dining, standalone restaurants serving food to public.
View Guide → 🥐Bread, cakes, pastries, biscuits and baked goods manufacturing or retail.
View Guide → 🚚Mobile food vending truck operating across one or more states.
View Guide → 🐄Milk production, collection and primary processing at farm level.
View Guide → 🍦Commercial production of ice cream, kulfi and frozen desserts.
View Guide → 🛺Roadside stalls, handcarts and thelas selling cooked food items.
View Guide → ☁️Delivery-only kitchen without dine-in, operating via Zomato/Swiggy.
View Guide → 🍱Event catering, corporate catering and bulk food supply services.
View Guide → 🥘Home or commercial tiffin delivery service supplying daily meals.
View Guide → 🍬Retail shop selling traditional Indian sweets and namkeens.
View Guide → 🫙Commercial production of packaged pickles and condiments.
View Guide → 🌶️Grinding, blending and packaging spices and masala products.
View Guide → 🌾Wheat flour, atta and gram flour milling units.
View Guide → 🍚Paddy processing, rice milling and packaging operations.
View Guide → 🥩Retail butcher shops selling fresh or processed meat to consumers.
View Guide → 🐟Fish cleaning, cutting, preservation and value-added fish products.
View Guide → 🐔Large-scale chicken and poultry slaughter and processing facility.
View Guide → 🍟Wafers, chips, extruded snacks and packaged snack food production.
View Guide → 🥜Bhujia, sev, chivda and traditional Indian namkeen production.
View Guide → 🫓Papad, roasted/fried papad and similar thin snack wafers.
View Guide → 🍋Fresh juice, smoothie bars and cold-pressed juice outlets.
View Guide → 💧Commercial bottling and packaging of drinking water (ISI/BIS required).
View Guide → ☕Chai tapri, tea and snack stalls with small-scale operations.
View Guide → ☕Cafes serving brewed coffee, cold coffee and light snacks.
View Guide → 🥗Highway or roadside dhabas serving home-style Indian food.
View Guide → 🍔QSR and fast food counters serving burgers, wraps and quick meals.
View Guide → 🍕Pizza restaurant, pizza delivery outlet or cloud kitchen.
View Guide → 🍔Burger restaurant, takeaway or delivery-focused burger brand.
View Guide → 🥞Dosa, idli, vada restaurants and South Indian food chains.
View Guide → 🥦Pure-veg restaurants serving Indian or global vegetarian cuisine.
View Guide → 📦Food delivery aggregator platforms and online food ordering services.
View Guide → 🏠Home bakers, cooks and small-scale food businesses run from home.
View Guide → 🍮Traditional Indian sweet (mithai) shop making and selling halwai items.
View Guide → 🍫Commercial chocolate, cocoa products and confectionery production.
View Guide → 🍪Biscuit, cookie and cracker manufacturing and packaging plant.
View Guide → 🌿Organic certified food products including grains, pulses and processed items.
View Guide → 👶Infant cereal, weaning foods and packaged baby nutrition products.
View Guide → 🌰Cashew, almond, raisin and mixed dry fruit packaging business.
View Guide → 🌶️Pre-mixed masala blends and spice powder packaging units.
View Guide → ✈️Importing food products into India — mandatory Central License required.
View Guide → 🚢Exporting food products from India to international markets.
View Guide → 🏪Wholesale distribution of packaged food items to retailers.
View Guide → 🛒Grocery and provisions shop selling packaged and loose food items.
View Guide → ❄️Cold storage facility storing perishable food products for third parties.
View Guide → 🚛Food transportation business using refrigerated or insulated vehicles.
View Guide → 🫙Sunflower, soybean, groundnut and blended edible oil production.
View Guide → 🏢Office canteen or cafeteria serving food to employees of a company.
View Guide → 🏫Canteen inside school, college or educational institution premises.
View Guide → 🏥Food service unit operating inside hospitals and healthcare facilities.
View Guide → 💒Large-scale wedding and event catering services across venues.
View Guide → 🏬Food stall inside a mall, market or food court complex.
View Guide → 🫧Golgappa, puchka and pani puri street food vendors.
View Guide → 🍛Biryani-speciality restaurant, takeaway or cloud kitchen brand.
View Guide → 🔥Tandoor-based restaurant serving roti, naan, tikka and kebabs.
View Guide → 🥤HPP cold press juice production and bottling for retail sale.
View Guide → 🚰Natural mineral water extraction, treatment, bottling and sale.
View Guide → 🥤Carbonated soft drinks, flavored soda and aerated beverage plant.
View Guide → ☕Multi-cuisine café serving beverages, snacks and light meals.
View Guide → 🍜Indo-Chinese or authentic Chinese cuisine dine-in restaurants.
View Guide → 🌱Vegan food product manufacturing, retail or restaurant operations.
View Guide → 👩🍳Home-based food sellers selling via Instagram, WhatsApp or local delivery.
View Guide → 🍯Traditional halwai preparing and selling Indian sweets and snacks.
View Guide → 🍞Commercial bread, bun, rusk and bakery products manufacturing unit.
View Guide → 🎂Custom cake shop, dessert bakery and celebration cake business.
View Guide → 🥐Pastry, éclair, croissant and French bakery item retail shop.
View Guide → 🥛Milk pasteurization, homogenization and packaged dairy products.
View Guide → 🧀Commercial fresh paneer and cottage cheese production and packaging.
View Guide → 🫙Clarified butter (ghee) production from cow or buffalo milk.
View Guide → 🍓Fruit-based jams, jellies, marmalades and preserves production.
View Guide → 🍅Tomato ketchup, hot sauce, chili sauce and condiment manufacturing.
View Guide → 🥡Pre-cooked, packaged RTE meals, curries and meal kits for retail.
View Guide → 🧊Frozen parathas, samosas, veg/non-veg frozen food items production.
View Guide → 💊Vitamins, minerals, herbal and dietary supplement food products.
View Guide → 💪Whey, pea, soy and blended protein powder and sports nutrition.
View Guide → 🌿Herbal food supplements, chyawanprash and ayurvedic health foods.
View Guide → 🧬Functional food, fortified food and nutraceutical product manufacturing.
View Guide → 🏬Large-format grocery supermarket selling food and FMCG products.
View Guide → 🏪Neighbourhood kirana and general provision store selling packaged foods.
View Guide → 🥕Fresh fruits and vegetable shop or vendor (below ₹12L turnover).
View Guide → 🏭Food storage warehouse, fulfillment center or bulk food depot.
View Guide → 📦Food contract packaging, repacking and relabelling services.
View Guide → 🫙Mustard seed crushing, kachi ghani and filtered mustard oil production.
View Guide → 🟤Gur, jaggery blocks and jaggery powder manufacturing from sugarcane.
View Guide → 🍝Instant noodles, fresh pasta and vermicelli manufacturing plant.
View Guide → 🍜Wheat and rice vermicelli (seviyan) manufacturing and packaging.
View Guide → 🥖Pav bhaji stall and counter selling Mumbai-style street food.
View Guide → 🍿Chaat stall or corner selling bhelpuri, sev puri and street chaat.
View Guide → 🍎Fruit pulp, dried fruit, canned fruit and fruit-based product processing.
View Guide → 🥣Set curd, flavored yogurt and probiotic dairy product manufacturing.
View Guide → 🧀Processed cheese, mozzarella, cheddar and specialty cheese production.
View Guide → 🟢Packaged chutneys, dips and Indian condiment manufacturing.
View Guide → 🥫Metal and glass can food preservation and retort pouch processing.
View Guide → 🧈Table butter, white butter and flavored butter production unit.
View Guide → 📱Getting FSSAI for restaurants listing on food delivery apps.
View Guide → 🐄Village-level or cooperative milk collection and chilling centres.
View Guide → 🍼Infant formula, follow-up formula and newborn nutrition products.
View Guide → 🏬Multi-state food retail chain or franchise network operating nationally.
View Guide → 🥥Virgin coconut oil, refined coconut oil and coconut derivative processing.
View Guide → 🏭Large-scale sugarcane crushing, sugar refining and by-product processing.
View Guide → 🌽Corn starch, potato starch, arrowroot and modified starch production.
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Get FSSAI registration for your business in any major Indian city. Click your city to see business-type specific guides and apply online.