Services

Food Registration

The Food Registration And Applied Nutrition Directorate
  • Processes new, renewal, and variation applications for food and feed meant  for animal consumption within 30 working days for regular applications.
  • Responds to food registration related enquiries and issues.
  • Communicates all correspondences to clients.
  • Provides ‘’Premium Service Delivery’’ for processing of low-risk products, renewal and request (variations, reissuance of documents, responses, label evaluation, name/institutional search) applications at three (3) times the regular fees.
  • Progressive Licensing Scheme (PLS):
Advises on labelling and packaging suitability prior to acceptance of applications.

TIMELINES AND FEES FOR PREMIUM APPLICATIONS

No Description Timeline Fees
1 Renewal Application of Food Product Registration 10 Working Days 3 x Regular fee
2 New Application for Low-Risk Food Product Registration 15 Working Days 3 x Regular fee
3 Request Applications (variations, reissuance of documents, responses, label evaluation, name/institutional search) 5 Working Days 3 x Regular fee
 
This does not include products that require Laboratory confirmation and Site Verification. Supermarket products and Request for Due Diligence (Eg. From Legal Firms, Banks etc) are also excluded