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FSMS Plan Preparation

FSMS Plan or Food Safety Management System (FSMS) plan is a
set of standards established to direct and control aspects of
food safety. There are many international FSMS like HACCP, ISO
22000, FSSC 22000 and many more. However, these are
voluntary certi cations and the FSMS as de ned in the Food
Safety and Standards Act, 2006  means the adoption Good
Manufacturing Practices, Good Hygienic Practices, Hazard 
Analysis and Critical Control Point and such other practices as
may be speci ed by regulation. FSMS plan is required during

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application for new FSSAI License or renewal of FSSAI

License (https://www.india lings.com/fssai). In this article,
we look at the process for preparation of a FSMS plan.

Requirement for FSMS Plan

The Food Safety and Standard Act, 2006 requires all food
businesses to have a FSMS plan. Even if a food business has a
Food Safety Certi cation from HACCP or ISO of FSSC, a FSMS
plan as per the Food Safety and Standards Act is required.
However, for those food businesses having HACCP or ISO or
FSSC certi cation, preparing a FSMS plan would be easy as there
are many areas that overlap.

Further, the requirement for FSMS plan is also not  dependent

on type or size of business. Hence, all food businesses require a
FSMS plan. But, depending on the size and nature of the
business, the size and complexity of the FSMS plan would vary.

Preparing a FSMS Plan

All FSMS Program must have a FSMS plan, ow chart for the
process and an inspection checklist.

FSMS Plan
FSMS plan is an important document that de nes each of the
steps in the operation, the applicable/identi ed hazards,
method for controlling the hazard/threat, critical limit, method
for monitoring for critical threat, corrective action, responsibility
and record keeping. A sample FSMS plan is attached below:

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Sample FSMS Plan for Restaurant and Food Catering Business

FSMS Flowchart
A FSMS owchart is a owchart representation of the process
undertaken by the food business. It is important to have a FSMS
owchart to have a good understanding of the process and ow
of the activities.

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Sample FSMS Flowchart

Inspection Checklist
The last and nal part of a FSMS plan is the FSMS inspection
checklist. Using the FSMS inspection checklist, an authorized
person periodically checks the points of inspections and marks
his/her observation. Based on the FSMS plan, correction actions
are taken based on the observation present in the checklist.

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Sample FSMS Checklist

FSMS A davit
While obtaining a FSSAI License, food business operators were
required to submit a FSMS A davit in Non-Judicial Stamp Paper.
The FSMS a davit stated that the food business has in place a
food safety plan to ensure the safety and standards of food and
undertakes to put in place a FSMS as per the food safety Act.
However, in the interest of improving ease of doing business,
the FSMS a davit has been replaced by an FSSAI Undertaking
by way of Self Declaration on plain paper. Hence, presently the
FSSAI accepts only Undertaking by way of Self Declaration. You
can quickly create a FSSAI  Undertaking by way of Self
Declaration (https://www.india lings.com/fssai) through
the IndiaFilings LiveEdit feature.

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