Food Safety and Compliance System (FoSCoS)

What is FoSCoS?

FoSCoS- Food Safety and Compliance System is a unified application built on open source platform, with enhanced features, easily configurable and has architectural capability to meet the envisaged functionalities and modules. The application is designed in such a way that it has interoperable capabilities to integrate and merge with other FSSAI applications for providing solutions to all kinds of food businesses on single platform.

Objective of FoSCoS application:

Overall objectives of FoSCoS are as follows:

• Transform from the present FLRS which is only a licensing platform to a central food safety compliance regulatory platform.
• Build a technically advanced integrated application to achieve interoperability with other applications, capable of higher user traffic, and has potential for future upgrades and functionalities.
• Enhance user performance of the application and make application process simpler and efficient to promote ease of doing business amongst FBOs.
• Achieve minimal physical documentation and streamline business process flows for FBOs for online application.
• Achieve and enable the application to have standardized product approach rather than text box approach for manufacturers.
• Enable application to seed business specific details such as CIN No., PAN No. and GST No. to ensure 360° profiling and validation of FBOs.

What are the improved features of FoSCoS?

To meet the above objective, process flows and application features of FoSCoS have been enhanced and upgraded for better user experience. Following are the improved key features of FoSCoS:

• Upgradation of hardware and software to ensure enhanced processing speed, least possible downtime, higher user traffic capability and potential for future upgrades.
• Scalable architecture to meet future upgrades, new modules for additional functionalities and integration with other IT systems of FSSAI. FoSCoS shall in future be the one-stop food safety compliance portal.
• Paradigm shift in licensing approach from Text Box approach to Standardized Product approach for manufacturers.
• The Home page has been re-designed to make it more user friendly, intuitive and smart search option for standardized products and eligibility search for any food business is given.
• New online feature for filling annual returns through FoSCoS application.
• FoSCoS has been integrated with FoSCoRIS to ensure seamless operations. FBOs will have access to inspections reports.
• Rationalization of required documents KoB wise instead of complete set of 29 documents indicated previously in FLRS application.
• Many document-based declarations revised to a check box online declaration.
• Clear segregation of KoBs in FoSCoS application. For e.g. nutraceuticals and novel food category has been added as a separate category of business under manufacturing.
• FoSCoS application has been enabled to seed business specific details such as PAN no., CIN no. and GST numbers to ensure 360° profiling and validation of FBO.

Key Features of FoSCoS:

• Enhanced processing speed along with higher user traffic handing capability and a scalable system architecture that can support future upgrades and addition of modules.
• FoSCoS to be one-stop Food Safety Compliance Portal designed to support integration with other FSSAI Applications.
• Paradigm shift in Licensing for Manufacturers with selection of Standardized Products rather than entering details in text boxes.
• A User friendly and self-intuitive Home page providing smart search options for License Eligibility Criteria and Standardized Products.
• New module for filling Annual Returns Online, rather than having to send them physically.
• Inspection reports (from FoSCoRIS) now available in FoSCoS for seamless operations.
• KOB Specific list of required documents to be uploaded, instead of all 29 shown earlier. Also, with Tick box based online declarations, no need to upload signed documents.
• Clear segregation of KoBs in FoSCoS, for e.g. Nutraceuticals and Novel foods have been added as separate categories under Manufacturing.
• FoSCoS application form captures PAN No., CIN No. and GST No. which can provide authentication and 360° profiling of FBO’s in future.
• Improved Menu list and Dashboards for Licensing and Registering Authorities aligned with different Application Stages and related pendency.

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