Packaging compliance.
Packaging is a regulation of its own. Every layer that touches food should meet a named Indian Standard, with a certificate of conformity on file.
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Send on WhatsApp tooEvery layer that touches your food named against its Indian Standard — with the certificate on file.
What’s at stakePackaging is the one input you buy from someone else and still answer for. If a material is not food-grade to the Indian Standard your category needs, the finished product carries the problem — your supplier does not.
Where the rule comes from
FSS (Packaging) Regulations 2018, Compendium Version V, 02.04.2025
We quote the regulation behind every requirement. Where FSSAI has not said something clearly, we tell you it is our advice, not the law.
You need this if…
- Manufacturers choosing or changing pack materials
- Packaged drinking water
- Brands switching to recycled plastic
What we’ll need from you
- Material specification sheets for every pack component
- Supplier declarations naming the Indian Standard each meets
- Any migration test reports you already hold
- Pack drawings with fill weight and headspace
- Your product list with categories
Exactly what you’re paying for.
Included
- Pack layers listed with the standard each must meet
- Certificates of conformity and migration results checked
- Prohibited materials flagged
Not included
- Laboratory migration testing (the lab’s finding, booked by you)
Anything outside scope is quoted in writing before we do it.
- A packaging file per product
- Gaps named, with the standard each layer needs
Who does what, in order.
Most of the work is ours. Where something needs you, it says so.
After it’s done
- A packaging file per product
- YouList the pack
Bottle, cap, film, carton — every layer and supplier.
- WeMap to standards
Schedules I–III of the Packaging Regulations.
- WeCheck the paperwork
Certificates, migration limits, gaps named.
The mistakes we see most.
A moulding standard isn’t the food-contact standard.
Food-grade recycled PET has its own authorisation route.
The authorities behind this service.
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Our promises, in writing
You get the fee before we start. If the scope changes, you hear it from us before it costs you.
We file on your own FoSCoS (FSSAI’s licensing website) account with your approval. Nothing to hand back if you ever leave.
Straight to FSSAI on FoSCoS. It never passes through us.
Each rule comes with its source, and we say clearly when something is our advice.
Common questions
Who decides whether a material is compliant?
A laboratory, against the standard. We state the standard and the limit and check the certificate — the finding is the lab’s.
Is newspaper wrapping allowed?
No. The Packaging Regulations prohibit newspaper and similar material in contact with food.
Often needed alongside.
Label review
Every mandatory element, size and claim — before the print run.
See the serviceClaims & advertising review
Front-of-pack claims, ads, social posts and influencer copy — checked before FSSAI reads them.
See the serviceProduct & ingredient approval (NSF)
Novel ingredients, non-standardised foods and new formulations — the prior-approval route.
See the serviceGet a fixed quote — in writing, before we start.
Book a free 10-minute check. A person — not a bot — calls you back within working hours, tells you exactly which licence you need and what it costs, before you commit to anything.
- Government fee paid by you, directly to FSSAI
- Filed under your own FoSCoS login
- Fixed fee, confirmed in writing before we start
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