The requirement of FSSAI Registration or license depends upon turnover and type of food business activity. Generally, Basic FSSAI Registration will fulfil your requirement if your turnover is below 12 lakh, else you need State or Central FSSAI license. 

Every business that enters into the food industry, directly or indirectly, requires FSSAI registration or license to start a business under food industry.

There is different threshold limit for the different kind of food processing units. 

There is different threshold limit for the different kind of food processing units. 

1. A vendor who prepares or sells any of the food articles as a petty retailer, hawker, peddler, small vendor or a road stall holder
2. Distributor of foods related to religious, seasonal or social gathering occasions (excluding caterers)
3. Food manufacturer or processor except for dairy & poultry supplier, whose production capacity is less than 100 l or kg per day
4. Dealers of Diary products, whose extraction, storage or collection capacity is up to 500 litres every day 
5. Poultry suppliers whose slaughtering capacity is equal to 2 big animals and 10 small animals or 50 poultry birds (e.g. chicken, turkey etc.) per day.
6. All other petty food businesses such as restaurants, dhabas, canteens/mess, transporters etc. whose turnover is up to ₹12 lakh.

Those having turnover <30 Crore and owning up to 100 wagons require FSSAI State license. Those with turnover >30 Crore and owning more than 100 wagons require FSSAI Central license.

Those having Turnover up to 20 Crores require FSSAI State license, while those with Turnover above 20 Crores require Central license.

In case of a Vegetable oil producing & processing unit, if you are having turnover <12 lakh and producing/processing up to 2 Metric Tonnes (MT) require FSSAI State license. Those with turnover >12 lakh and producing/processing more than 2 MT need a Central license.