India FSSAI — Food Safety and Standards (Import) Regulations, 2017
Primary source (first-hand, landed): Food Safety and Standards (Import) Regulations, 2017, FSSAI. First-hand PDF text obtained via Tavily server-side extract. English original; verbatim C1-checked source below.
Key facts (verbatim from the regulation)
- "These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Import) Regulations, 2017."
- "They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette."
- "In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) 'Act' means the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006) …"
- The regulation establishes the Food Import Clearance System (FICS) and import-licensing/clearance mechanics for food articles.
Relevance to pet food
Imported pet food enters India under this general food-import framework (FSSAI has no pet-food-specific regulation; pet food is treated as a food article under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 / Import Regulations, 2017). This confirms the Indian regulatory home for imported pet food = FSSAI general framework (not a dedicated pet-food statute).
Honest gaps
- Detailed FICS clearance steps and fee schedules are present in the landed 81 KB text but not exhaustively quoted; only the framework facts are reproduced verbatim.
- FSSAI's role over *domestic* pet-food manufacture (vs import) and any BIS pet-food standard are honest-pending (BIS standard layer was not reached; no pet-food-specific FSSAI/BIS instrument was found in first-hand sources).