The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (“FSSAI”) has introduced the provision for Food Business Operators (“FBOs”) to update / revise the annual return submitted through FoSCoS subject to certain conditions and fees. Earlier, the already filed annual return could be revised / updated till the last date of submission i.e. by 31st May. However, with the approval of Food Authority, the annual return can now be revised/updated in FoSCoS after 31st May to rectify inadvertent mistake subject to the following conditions:
- For compliant FBOs who have filed Annual Return by 31st May, revision of annual return is allowed for a maximum of two times and the last submitted annual return will be considered as final;
- FBOs who have filed Annual Return beyond 31st May of following year with late fee only one time revised/updated filing of annual return is allowed till 31st March of the following year;
- FBOs are not allocated to file revised return if original Annual return was filed beyond 31st March of the following year.
A copy of the Order is linked below for ease of reference.
Source: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
