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FoSCoS to cover entire country; new system to come into force from Nov 1
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Thursday, 22 October, 2020, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The Food Safety Compliance System (FoSCoS) will cover the entire country soon, as FSSAI initiated the process to launch it in the remaining states. The process will be completed by October 26 and by November 1, the new system will come into force.
The FSSAI, in this regard, issued a notice saying, “It is informed that the launch of the second phase of FoSCoS in remaining 27 states is planned on 1st November 2020 and to enable the same, (the existing) FLRS shall be closed for remaining 27 states with effect from 21st October 11pm.”
The first phase of FoSCoS was launched in 9 states including Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Odisha, Goa, Manipur, Puducherry, Chandigarh and Ladakh to replace existing Food Licensing and Registration System (FLRS) from June 1, 2020.
The notice added that all the material related to migration strategy, standard operating procedure and FAQs have been provided at the home page of the FoSCoS.
“It is hereby advised that the users of the system of the remaining 27 states may complete their pending task related to FSSAI Licensing and Registration on FLRS,” reads the notice.
Further, a new version of Food Safety Connect (Consumer Grievance) portal will be made live with the FoSCoS.
According to the FSSAI, since 2011, the FSSAI’s online licensing platform FLRS is the soul of the licensing ecosystem with 100% India (all state and UTs) coverage, 70 lakh licences/ registrations issued till date, and over 40 lakh licensees/ registrants actively transacting on it.
FoSCoS is a cloud-based new food safety compliance online platform and conceptualised to provide one point stop for all engagement of an FBO with the department for any regulatory compliance transaction.
FSSAI, in a statement, informed that FoSCoS has been integrated with FoSCoRIS mobile app and will soon integrate with present IT platforms of FSSAI such as INFOLNet, FoSTaC and FICS.
“Sample management, improvement notices, adjudications, audit management system etc. activities/ modules will be enabled in phased manner in future. Technologies such as GPS location tagging, picture capture etc. will be utilised in future to ensure transparent and accountable extension field services such as inspections and sampling.”
And in future it will be integrated with other platforms of Government of India such as GST, PAN and MCA to ensure a 360 degree profiling and validation of businesses. “A single regulatory platform will enable pan-India integrated response system to any food fraud and ensure an advanced risk-based, data-driven regulatory approach. For the start, FoSCoS will be offering licensing, registration, inspection and annual return modules,” reads the FSSAI statement.
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