India, March 31 -- Food Safety & Standards Authority (FSSAI) has announced and classified the import clearance of food items and functioning of notified food testing laboratories (including National Food Labs) under Essential Services during the COVID-19.

All personnel who are assigned the charge of above essential services are required to be available in office on all working days in order to facilitate the trade as well as ensure smoother operation of related services across the country.

FSSAI says, "FSSAI has its Offices at 6 locations namely Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Cochin and Tuticorin and all these offices are fully operational for scrutiny of applications, visual inspection and sampling for import clearance to ensure expe...