The status of the applications for Product Approval with the FSSAI is divided into two segments. One is dated 31.1.2014 when the Bombay High Court stayed the advisory dated 11th May 2013 on the appeal of some Food Business Operators and the Indian Drug Manufacturers’ Association. The second segment is the status of the applications of Product Approvals with the FSSAI after it got a stay on 13.8.2014 from the Supreme Court on the previous order of the Bombay High Court.
The status of product approvals with FSSAI sent manually in physical form on 31.01.2014 is as follows. FSSAI received 3565 applications for product applications manually out of these 522 products have been given either product approval or NOC. About 241 applications have been closed while 147 applications have been rejected on various grounds. There presently 2655 manually sent applications pending product approval including those with back reference. About 1063 product approvals have been sent to the FBOs for clarification on various issues.
On 13.08.2014 the number of applications received manually, were 3999 out of which the approvals or NOC had been given to 522 products. About 241 applications have been closed while 147 applications have been rejected on various grounds. More than 3089 applications were still pending for approval while the number of applications sent back for clarifications to FBOs numbered 1063.
As on 31st May 2015, the total number of applications filed by that date were 4353 out of which 1043 have received product approvals while 277 have been referred to the various Scientific Panels. The applications that have been closed are 1927 and those in the process of closure are 55. There are only 667 applications pending with FSSAI including back reference while 523 have been rejected. Some 56 applications have been prepared for Product Approval & Scientific Committee. Out of the 349 cases pending with FSSAI, 292 clarifications have been received for them and 57 Dossiers have been referred to the various Scientific Panels. The figures for product approval show a marked improvement from 31.12.2014 when 2670 applications were pending for approval to 31.5.2015 when only 667 applications are pending with FSSAI
There were also 104 applications filed online between 01.05.2015 to 31.05.2015. However, the total number of Online Applications filed between 31st December 2014 and 31st May 2015 number 757. Out of these 186 are pending with FSSAI, 394 are with FBOs for clarifications and 29 have received product Approval or NOC and 11 are with the Scientific Panels. The number of rejected applications is 47 and those closed for being unresponsive are 101 and while 12 are under closure.
Status of applications for Product Approval as received by 30th June 2015 that were received in physical or manual form are 4357 and product approval or NOC has been granted to 1047 cases while 295 applications are with the Scientific Panels. The cases that have been closed for being unresponsive is 2094 while 22 are under closure. Only 551 applications have been rejected while 348 are with pending including back reference. Another 110 applications have to be placed before the PA&SC and 62 are pending examination. The FBOs have 186 applications that have been submitted back to them for clarifications.
Total number of online application that FSSAI has received from 31 December 2014 to the present 30 June 2015 is 966 of which 30 have received PA or NOC while 16 are with the Scientific Panels. Those that are closed are 135 and 17 are under closure while 58 applications have been rejected. The applications pending including back reference is 710 of which 12 are placed before the PA&SC, 638 are pending examination at FSSAI and 60 are with the FBOs pending clarifications.
If the files are found to be complete and all clarifications have been responded to then the FSSAI is likely to dispose of 110 pending application in physical mode and the 300 applications in online mode by 31 July 2015.
Source: FSSAI
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