Licence to Operate a Food Processing Establishment
In Singapore, all food processing establishments must be licensed by Singapore Food Agency before they are permitted to carry out any food processing for wholesale distribution.
- Validity
- 12 months
- Processing time
- An estimated 25 working days to process an application depending on the completeness of documents submitted in order to issue in principle approval (I
- Issuing authority
- SINGAPORE FOOD AGENCY (SFA)
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Who needs the Licence to Operate a Food Processing Establishment
This licence applies to Singapore businesses registered under the following SSIC industry codes:
- Required to operateGroup 101 — PROCESSING AND PRESERVING OF MEAT
Includes: 10101 Slaughtering of livestock and poultry, 10102 Manufacture of sausage, 10103 Preparing, canning and preserving of livestock and livestock products, 10104 Preparing, canning and preserving of poultry and poultry products
- Required to operateGroup 102 — PROCESSING AND PRESERVING OF SEAFOOD
- Required to operateGroup 103 — PROCESSING AND PRESERVING OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Includes: 10301 Manufacture of jams, 10302 Other canning and preserving of fruits and fruit juices, 10303 Other canning and preserving of vegetables and vegetable juices
- Required to operateGroup 104 — MANUFACTURE OF VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL OILS AND FATS
Includes: 10401 Manufacture of edible vegetable and animal oils and fats, 10402 Manufacture of inedible vegetable and animal oils and fats, 10409 Manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats n.e.c.
- Required to operateGroup 105 — MANUFACTURE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS
Includes: 10501 Manufacture of condensed and evaporated milk; pasteurising and bottling of fluid milk, 10502 Manufacture of milk powder, 10503 Manufacture of ice-cream, 10509 Manufacture of dairy products n.e.c.
- Required to operateGroup 106 — MANUFACTURE OF GRAIN MILL PRODUCTS, STARCHES AND STARCH PRODUCTS
Includes: 10611 Rice milling, 10612 Wheat milling, 10619 Manufacture of grain mill products n.e.c., 10620 Manufacture of starches and starch products
- Required to operateGroup 107 — MANUFACTURE OF OTHER FOOD PRODUCTS
Includes: 10711 Manufacture of biscuits, 10712 Manufacture of bread, cakes and confectionery (except frozen bakery products), 10719 Manufacture of bakery products n.e.c., 10720 Manufacture of sugar and sugar products
- Required to operateGroup 108 — MANUFACTURE OF PREPARED ANIMAL FEEDS
Required documents and prerequisites
Items the applicant typically needs ready before submitting:
- Architectural Layout Plan
- The layout plan of the premises
- File Format: DOC,DOCX,GIF,JPG,PDF,PPT,PPTX,XLS,XLSX
- Maximum upload per application: 2MB
- Particulars of Products
- Details of the Products
- File Format: DOC,DOCX,GIF,JPG,PDF,PPT,PPTX,XLS,XLSX
- Maximum upload per application: 2MB
- Process Flow Chart
- Process Flow Chart of the Activities
- File Format: DOC,DOCX,GIF,JPG,PDF,PPT,PPTX,XLS,XLSX
- Maximum upload per application: 2MB
- Others
- Additional Supporting Documents.
- File Format: DOC,DOCX,GIF,JPG,PDF,PPT,PPTX,XLS,XLSX
- Maximum upload per application: 2MB
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