FSSAI ends 5-year licence renewals, lifts turnover limits across India's $600bn food economy
Food licences become perpetual and registration ceiling jumps to ₹1.5 crore from ₹12 lakh, easing compliance for 6.7 million food businesses—restaurants, cloud kitchens, packaged brands—and formalising 2 million street vendors via NSWS integration.
What happened
FSSAI scraps five-year renewals, making food licences perpetual, and sharply raises turnover thresholds for registration, state and central licences. Move eases
Key facts
- $600 billion food economy
- 6.7 million food businesses
- 2 million street vendors
- registration ceiling raised to ₹1.5 crore from ₹12 lakh
- state licence ₹1.5 crore–₹50 crore
- central licence above ₹50 crore
Why this matters
With 2 million street vendors and 6.7 million food businesses now easier to formalise via NSWS, roll-up and acquisition pipelines in QSR, packaged foods, and aggregator plays just got materially deeper and cleaner to diligence.