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Timeline for assessment scheme for food labs extended till March 31
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Monday, 24 July, 2023, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The FSSAI has decided to extend the timeline for FSSAI-NABL integrated assessment scheme for food labs until March 31, 2024.
The food authority has issued an order, in this regard, saying that all laboratories already notified by FSSAI, which have not obtained FSSAI-NABL (National Accreditation Board for Testing & Calibration Laboratories) integrated assessment accreditation, must obtain the same prior to the expiry of their NABL accreditation validity period or before March 31, 2024, whichever is earlier.
According to the food authority, FSSAI will only accept fresh proposals from laboratories for FSSAI recognition and notification if the laboratory has obtained accreditation under FSSAI-NABL integrated assessment scheme.
And such labs should get FSSAI-NABL integrated assessment on or before March 31, 2024.
In 2019, FSSAI issued a notice, in this regard, asking all the notified laboratories to get integrated assessment for accreditation under FSSAI-NABL unified approach of laboratory accreditation/recognition/approval system which also has other regulatory boards.
And, accordingly, the food testing labs willing to apply for FSSAI recognition/ renewal/extension of scope and so on were asked to apply only through the unified system of integrated assessment.
Subsequently, in September 2022, the date for such integrated assessment was extended until June 30, 2023.
This will be the third time FSSAI extended the timeline.
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