FSSAI licences no longer expire. Since 10 March 2026 a licence is valid until it is suspended, cancelled or surrendered, and the renewal cycle is gone. What replaced it is an annual fee and a return, and missing either one deems your licence suspended, which stops the business just as an expiry did. If your certificate still shows an expiry date it belongs to the old cycle and needs renewing once more, and if it has already lapsed there is a 180 day window with a hard end.
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Timeline: 7 to 30 days
Timeline: 7 to 30 days
Timeline: Runs across the year
Government fee — paid by you at actuals
Government fees are paid by you at actuals and depend on your category. The annual fee is ₹100 a year for Basic Registration, roughly ₹2,000 to ₹5,000 a year for a State licence depending on the category, and ₹7,500 a year for a Central licence, and it can be paid several years in advance. Where a licence on the old cycle is renewed late, add either the ₹100 a day pre-expiry late fee, which applies to licences and not to Basic Registration, or the post-expiry multiple of three times the annual fee to day 90 and five times from day 91 to day 180. We compute the exact figure for your licence and tell you before anything is filed.
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From FoSCoS rather than from the certificate in the folder. A licence with an expiry date is on the old cycle and renews once more. One without is perpetual, and what matters instead is the annual fee and the return.
For manufacturers and importers this comes first. Outstanding returns block a post-expiry renewal outright, and under the new framework an unfiled return deems the licence suspended.
A change of premises, of constitution, of directors or partners, or of the food categories handled is a modification, not a renewal. Filing a straight renewal over changed facts creates a licence that does not describe your business.
The turnover bands changed on 1 April 2026, and activity can put you on the Central tier whatever your turnover. A licence at the wrong tier does not authorise what you actually do.
Largely the original set, refreshed. Where the premises or the constitution has changed, more.
The renewal against the existing licence with any late fee or multiple computed first, or the annual fee where the licence is already perpetual. Several years can be paid in advance.
Queries are common and the clock does not stop while one is outstanding, which is the main reason to file early rather than at the deadline.
Packaging, invoices, aggregator vendor records, marketplace listings and your own compliance file. Then the annual fee and return dates go on a schedule so this is a calendar entry next time.
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A certificate with an expiry date and one without are two different jobs. Most guidance still describes the old cycle as though it were the only one, and filing on the wrong assumption wastes the part of the window that matters.
For manufacturers and importers an unfiled Form D1 blocks a post-expiry renewal outright and, under the new framework, deems the licence suspended. It is the first thing we look at, not the last.
You may not conduct food business while a licence is expired or deemed suspended, and business conducted then is an offence under Section 63 of the FSS Act. That is what a lapse actually costs, not the fee.
Packaging, invoices and platform vendor records keep working. Past 180 days from expiry the number is gone and a fresh application issues a new one, which is the expensive version.
A licence attaches to a premises, so eleven outlets means eleven licences, eleven annual fees and eleven return positions. The failure is never the filing. It is that nobody owned the schedule.
The turnover bands moved on 1 April 2026 and activity still drives the Central tier independently. A renewal is the moment to fix a tier that no longer matches the business.
