Action Area - EatSmart Cities Challenge

Licensing and Registration (FBO) & Surveillance Drives

Licensing and Registration Drive


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Cities are expected to conduct drives to get FBOs registered/licensed with FSSAI on the Food Safety Compliance System (FoSCoS) online portal at https://foscos.fssai.gov.in/. This portal provides end-to-end information on the application process such as eligibility criteria, application procedure and submission, tracking the application etc.

Surveillance Drive


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The Food Safety Department conducts surveillance drives to collect samples of food for quality assurance and control to check adulteration/food fraud/counterfeit food products etc. Cities, can, similarlyconduct such drives with the Food Safety Department and further focus on development of local intelligence to identify commodities, hot spots and trends in adulterated food products.Cities may also ensure thatin case of packaged goods, only those that have FSSAI licence number indicated on labels are allowed for sale. Cities may refer to the National Surveillance Plan for guidance https://eatrightindia.gov.in/EatRightChallenge/resources/activities-pdf/national_surveillance_plan.pdf.