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Your annual turnover picks the tier: Basic Registration up to about ₹12 lakh, State Licence to roughly ₹200 crore, Central Licence above.
FSSAI authorisation is split by turnover into three tiers. Basic Registration covers the smallest units, up to about ₹12 lakh a year. The State Licence band runs from ₹12 lakh to roughly ₹200 crore a year. Above that, the Central Licence applies.
These are the 2024-25 slabs. Turnover limits are revised from time to time, so confirm the current figures before you quote them in an application or a business plan.
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Every registration or licence, whatever the tier, is issued for a period of up to 5 years. It must be renewed before it expires; a unit whose licence has lapsed is unlicensed until the renewal clears, so the expiry date belongs in the calendar from day one.
The most common filing error is a turnover-category mismatch — applying for Basic Registration when the turnover already requires a State Licence. Matching the slab to the licence before filing is the cheapest step in the whole setup.
Once the tier is fixed, the licence number it produces goes onto every pack: the label rules are set out on What an Indian Food Label Must Show, and the process limits your unit must meet are on Pasteurisation Temperatures and pH Limits.
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