VUAT

On and from the date of commencement of this Order, no person or manufacturer shall set up a new plant or expand the capacity of the existing plant without obtaining registration/permission as the case may be from the concerned Registering Authority. For this purpose, such person may make an application in the form specified in the first Schedule alongwith the prescribed fee to the Registering Authority for obtaining registration certificate.*
The provisions contained in sub-paragraph (1) shall apply to such person who handles or is equipped to handle or who has in the establishment or unit under his ownership or control (or where he has more than one such establishment, all the establishments put together) installed capacity for handling milk in excess of ten thousand litres per day, or milk product containing milk solids in excess of five hundred tonnes per annum.
In the registration certificate referred to in sub paragraph (1), the terms and conditions of the registration under this Order shall cover sanitary, hygienic conditions, quality and food safety as specified in the Fifth Schedule.**
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2. 1. The plant set up shall not be allowed to be commissioned unless an inspection has been carried out to ascertain sanitary and hygienic condition as specified in the Fifth Schedule and as per the instructions issued by the Central Government from time to time.
  2. The inspection shall be carried out by a team of three experts constituted by the applicant from a panel of experts or by a firm of quality auditors having professional experience of at least ten years in the fields of food technology, dairy technology, dairy engineering, animal husbandry and dairying and pollution control employed in institutions of repute in these fields. Such panels shall be notified by the Central Government from time to time.
  3. Soon after the inspection the experts shall submit an inspection report in sealed cover to the concerned registering authority.
  4. Such inspection shall be valid for a period not exceeding one year and the applicant shall be bound to arrange for re-inspection of the dairy plant before the expiry of the said period.”;
In respect of applicant referred to in sub paragraph (1), the registering authority shall make the registration and issue the registration certificate to the applicant in the form specified in the Second Schedule.*
1. Every application for registration, complete in all respect shall be disposed of by the registering authority within a period of ninety days from the date of receipt of the application.
2. Notwithstanding the period specified in clause (a), if the registering authority requires any additional information with respect to any application or if any application is incomplete in any respect, the registering authority may in writing require the applicant within such period mentioned therein to supply such additional information or complete the application in all respect, as the case may be.
3. on receipt of any additional information or the complete application under clause (b), the registering authority shall dispose of the application within forty five days from the date of receipt of such completed application or additional information as the case may be.
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Separate registration certificate shall be obtained in respect of each undertaking or establishment or unit if the holder of the registration certificate carries on business in milk or milk product in more than one premises;provided that there shall be no need of separate registration as long as no independent business activities are carried on in these premises.
Every holder of registration certificate shall inform of any additions or alterations made to the premises to the registering authorities within 30 days from the completion of addition/alteration. *
1. Every holder of registration certificate shall endeavor to maintain a cold chain from the place of milk procurement up to the final stage of sale of the milk or milk product to the end consumer and every holder of the registration certificate shall observe such procedures and practices that may be approved by the Advisory Board for clean milk production, collection, transportation and distribution of milk and milk product and
2. Except for the provisions of sub-paragraph (2) and (B), all the other provisions of this order shall be applicable to units that manufacture or carry on business in milk or any milk product or, have manufacturing facility for the business handling less than ten thousand litres per day of milk or milk products containing milk solids less than five hundred tonnes per annum.

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