Meat Shop Licensing and Registration Procedure in India

A Meat Shop, regulated by Municipal corporation act of the state and the prevention of food Adulteration Act 1964. To set up the Meat shop one require trade license which will be issued by The licensing and Enforcement Department of the municipal corporation of the respective states.To geta new trade license from the nearest Citizen’s service Bureaus(CSB) a form needs to be submitted which cost 25 rupees. Apart from this food operator needs FSSAI license as well to guarantee the safety of the products.Meat and meat products are categorized as meat, poultry that are either fresh or processed. FSSAI has some guidelines so that contamination risk can be minimized and safe for human consumption. HACCP approach is a systematic approach to prevent any sorts of contamination from entering meat and related products. It is necessary to eliminate all the hazardous substance to remove at critical control point (CCP).Food License business operator can follow the below checklists to ensure the safety of the products which are compliance with schedule 4 of Food safety and standard regulation, 2011.

a. Meat processing plant should be located away from chemical and oil and gas industries

b. Must have adequate supply of portable water.

c. Equipment’s should always be cleaned, dried to free from fungus.

d. Proper outlets like chimney and exhaust fan should be installed in the production and supply area.

e. Put cold storage facilities if required.

f. Need to use containers made of non-toxic and non-metallic materials.

g. No person should suffer from any contagious disease. Needs to make arrangement to get the staff medically examined etc.Food Business operators need to ensure that food production personnel and supervisors must undergo proper food hygiene training. There are other certain guidelines that need to be monitored:a. There should be proper arrangement to differentiate raw meat department, filling department and cooked meat department.

b. Source of supply must be checked.

c. Record of number of animals to be slaughtered per day

d. Record of Vets, there name and VCI Registration number etc.

FSSAI is issuing License based upon estimated business turnover and for Meat shop also the criteria is same as followsa. Basic FSSAI License: If any Food operator manufactures or sells food for own purpose or through hawkers or vendors in home based canteen, online, stalls etc. with business turnover not exceeding 12 lakhs and slaughtering capacity is not exceed 2 large animals or 10 small animals or 50 poultry birds, they will get Basic license within 7 days of registration.b. State License: Any food operator having annual turnover more than 12 lakhs can get state license if the slaughtering capacity is more than 2 large animals up to 50, daily meat processing units is 500kgs etc.c. Central License: Any food operator will get Central License if annual turnover is more than 20 crores. The slaughtering capacity should me more than 50 in case large animal, 150 for small animals and 1000 for poultry birds. Daily processing units should be more than 500 kgs.

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