What is Hygiene Rating and How its Useful?
The FSSAI’s Hygiene Rating Scheme aims to boost food safety standards and empower consumers by:
- Encouraging Businesses: By introducing transparent scoring, it motivates food businesses to prioritize hygiene and safety, leading to upgrades and stricter protocols.
- Empowering Consumers:The scheme enables consumers to make informed decisions about where to eat or buy food by providing easy access to hygiene ratings online.
- Protecting Public Health: Through promoting adherence to safety standards, it helps prevent foodborne illnesses, contributing to public health protection.
- Facilitating Market Differentiation:hygiene ratings offer businesses a competitive edge, attracting consumers who prioritize quality and safety, thereby boosting loyalty and profitability.
- Fostering Continuous Improvement:Through regular evaluations and feedback, it encourages businesses to continuously enhance hygiene standards, promoting overall improvement across the food sector.
- Building Trust:By promoting transparency, it enhances consumer confidence, ensuring they can trust the hygiene practices of food establishments they patronize.
WHO CAN APPLY?
The Hygiene Rating Scheme administered by FSSAI is inclusive of various food businesses, such as:
- Food Service Establishments: This encompasses a wide range of businesses serving food directly to customers, including hotels, restaurants, cafeterias, dhabas, food trucks, and catering services, which are pivotal in ensuring food safety.
- Sweet Shops: These establishments specialize in producing and selling traditional Indian sweets, desserts, and confectionery items, requiring strict adherence to hygiene standards to ensure product safety and quality.
- Bakeries: Participating bakeries produce and sell a variety of baked goods like bread, pastries, cakes, and cookies, emphasizing the importance of maintaining high hygiene standards due to the perishable nature of bakery products.
- Meat Retail Stores: This category includes businesses retailing meat, poultry, and seafood products such as butcher shops, meat markets, and poultry stores, where ensuring product hygiene and safety is paramount in preventing foodborne illnesses and building consumer trust.
Fee's Structure
Unavar Food Inspection and Certification Private Limited -HRAA is committed to fair and equitable fee structures for all organizations seeking certification. Now, Unavar Food Inspection and Certification Private Limited -HRAA implements a transparent and non-discriminatory fee system, charging clients based on a per Man-day basis. This fee structure is determined by calculating the number of Food Handlers present in the Food Business Operator (FBO) premises. Each Man-day is assessed according to the number of Food Handlers, ensuring an accurate representation of the resources and effort required for inspection and certification. This approach promotes fairness and consistency across all clients, aligning with our commitment to excellence in food safety standards.
| S.No | Food Handlers | Man Days | Cost |
|---|
| 1 | 0-50 | 0.5 | 4000 |
| 2 | 50-100 | 1 | 8000 |
| 3 | 100+ | 1.5 | 12000 |
(*18% tax applicable as in state)Note
The term "Total Number of staff" encompasses all personnel within the establishment, including managers, chefs, assistant chefs, waiters, maids, and others. This figure provides insight into the scale of operations within the premises, which directly influences the duration of the audit process. In cases where the hygiene rating audit is deemed unsatisfactory, a subsequent audit can only be scheduled after a minimum of three months from the date of the previous audit.
Food Business Operators (FBOs) are required to register on the HR portal and select the HR agency for conducting audits.
Payment terms stipulate 100% advance payment, with GST charged additionally if applicable. Furthermore, expenses related to auditor travel, lodging, and food will be billed separately.