The FSSAI has issued a notice with respect to the implementation of Traceability Application under Repurpose Used Cooking Oil (RUCO) Initiative and stated that The Traceability Application will be made live from March 15, 2023.
According to FSSAI, in order to streamline the RUCO initiative and to promote ease of doing business, it has developed the RUCO Traceability Application.
"The application is designed to track the whole RUCO ecosystem, generate UCO disposal requests, enroll NFP (Non Food Product) units, recognise aggregators requested by NFP units, monitor transactions and generate data and reports on real-time basis," reads FSSAI statement.
The Traceability Application is available on RUCO website and it provides log in facility for FBOs, UCO aggregators and NFP Units.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has notified the Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) First Amendment Regulations, 2017, regarding the quality of vegetable oil for repeated frying which prescribes the limit for Total Polar Compounds (TPC) to be maximum 25% beyond which the vegetable oil is not suitable for use.
Subsequently, guidelines for collection of Used Cooking Oil (UCO) by Biodiesel Manufacturers from Food Business Operators (FBOs) through authorised collection agencies were issued in May, 2019 which mandated FBOs whose consumption of edible oil for frying is more than 50 litre per day would maintain the usage record and would dispose UCO to agencies authorised by FSSAI or Commissioner of Food Safety of States/UTs from time to time.
Also under RUCO, FSSAI has been enrolling the NFP (Non Food Production) units and recognising the UCO aggregators on request of the recognised NFP units.