Food Safety and Standards Authority of India ( FSSAI)

Food Safety Compliance System (FoSCoS) is an enhanced version of Food Licensing and Registration System (FLRS) which was launched in 2012 for issuance of pan-India FSSAI Licenses and Registration. It had evolved incrementally and organically with changing regulatory needs. The technology on which it was built was outdated with technical support no longer available. Over years users complained of slow speed of FLRS and software experts resisted new changes on FLRS thus impeding any further improvement, expansion and innovation in the licensing system. Thus the migration from FLRS to FoSCoS was imperative.

FSSAI had earlier implemented a Food Licensing and Registration System (FLRS) – an online application to provide licensing and registration functionality. FLRS application enabled the process for FBOs to submit registration/ license applications related to all food businesses and further supported the processing of these applications by the Central/ State licensing authorities. FLRS has been in place from past 9 years.