Stay Licensed in 2026.
9 things that can still suspend an FSSAI licence or cost you lakhs — and the 10-minute check for each. Free, as a PDF you can print and tick.
A four-page PDF you can print and tick.
- Your annual fee
- Your annual return (Form D-1)
- The kind of business on your certificate
- Every mandatory element on your label
- The words on the front of your pack
- …and four more, each with the rule it comes from
Free, no sign-up. Four pages you can print and tick.
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Start with the first two checks — they’re the ones that suspend a licence with no notice.
Nine checks. Each with the rule behind it.
Since 10 March 2026 an FSSAI licence doesn’t expire — but it can still be suspended, or cost you lakhs, over things nobody reminds you about. Each check in the PDF tells you what goes wrong, how to check it yourself in about ten minutes, and where the rule comes from.
- 1Your annual fee
Since 10 March 2026 a licence no longer expires — but an unpaid annual fee means it is deemed suspended, with no notice.
Reg. 2.1.7(2), as substituted 10.03.2026 - 2Your annual return (Form D-1)
Licensed manufacturers and importers file a return for the previous year by 31 May; a delay costs ₹100 a day, and a missed return also triggers deemed suspension.
Reg. 2.1.13(1) and (3) - 3The kind of business on your certificate
A licence covers only the kinds of business written on it. Adding an activity, or crossing a turnover band in the table updated 01.04.2026, can leave you on the wrong licence — which counts as trading without one.
FSSAI kind-of-business table, 01.04.2026 · FSS Act s.63 - 4Every mandatory element on your label
A pack missing one required element is misbranded. The penalty goes up to ₹3 lakh, and the fix is a reprint.
Labelling & Display Regulations 2020, reg. 5 · FSS Act s.52 - 5The words on the front of your pack
“Natural”, “healthy”, “immunity”, “100%”, “no added sugar” — each is a claim with conditions. A misleading claim or advertisement carries up to ₹10 lakh.
Advertising & Claims Regulations 2018 · FSS Act s.53 - 6Your six-monthly product test
For manufacturers and importers, testing at least once in six months at an FSSAI-notified or NABL lab is a condition of the licence itself.
Schedule 2, Annexure 3, condition 12 - 7Water that goes into food
Water used in food or on food-contact surfaces is expected to be tested — every six months under FSMS guidance for kitchens and factories.
Schedule 4, Part II · FSMS guidance - 8Your people: medicals and FoSTaC
Food handlers need a yearly medical fitness certificate, and you need one FoSTaC-trained supervisor for every 25 handlers, at all times.
Schedule 4, Part II 10.1.2 · FSSAI order 02.11.2017 - 9What’s on the wall and in the file
Every premises must show the Food Safety Display Board with its licence number, and records must be kept for one year or the product’s shelf life, whichever is longer.
FSSAI order 19.09.2018 · Schedule 4, Part II 8.2
Here’s what happens next.
Most of the work is ours. Where something needs you, it says so — and nothing is filed without your approval.
- 1
Book a free 10-minute check
Tell us what you do. We confirm the exact kind of business, the licence and the full cost — including the exceptions most people miss.
Free · no obligation - 2
We file it on your login
You get a checklist for your business, we check every document, and we file on your own FoSCoS account. The government fee goes from you to FSSAI.
Fixed fee, in writing - 3
We keep you licensed
Fees, returns, tests, medicals, labels and inspections — dated, tracked and handled, with a short status note each month.
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- Government fee paid by you, directly to FSSAI
- Filed under your own FoSCoS login
- Fixed fee, confirmed in writing before we start
Not ready to talk? Get the free 2026 checklist or find your licence yourself.