India: India's FSSAI Publishes Sample Testing Fees for Domestic and Imported Food Products

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   IN2021-0134

On November 3, 2021, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare/Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published Order No. 12014/01/2020-QA listing the testing fees for samples of various categories of food products. The FSSAI (authority) testing fees will be uniformly applicable to both domestic and imported food products. The order’s revised testing fees are effective December 1, 2021.

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