For food businesses & food testing labs

Every FSSAI test for your food product

Type a product and see the tests FSSAI prescribes for it, with the limit for each. Food businesses get a quote from a testing lab; labs quote the whole panel in one click.

1,360

food products

2,684

test parameters

55

FSSAI food categories

FSSAI tests for

Tea

42 tests across 5 categories

Chemical/Quality Parameters5
Proximate Composition1
Contaminants - Heavy Metals2
Process/Safety Parameters1
Pesticide Residues33

Acid-insoluble Ash

Chemical/Quality Parameters · FSSAI

Limit: Not more than 1.0 percent % m/m (dry basis, oven-dried at 103±2°C)

Alkalinity of Water Soluble Ash expressed as KOH

Chemical/Quality Parameters · FSSAI

Limit: Not less than 1.0 percent and not more than 3.0 percent % m/m (dry basis, oven-dried at 103±2°C)

Total Ash

Chemical/Quality Parameters · FSSAI

Limit: Not less than 4.0 percent and not more than 8.0 % m/m (dry basis, oven-dried at 103±2°C)

Water Extract

Chemical/Quality Parameters · FSSAI

Limit: Not less than 32.0 percent % m/m (dry basis, oven-dried at 103±2°C)

Water Soluble Ash

Chemical/Quality Parameters · FSSAI

Limit: Not less than 45.0 percent of total ash % of total ash (dry basis, oven-dried at 103±2°C)

Crude Fibre

Proximate Composition · FSSAI

Limit: Not more than 16.5 percent % m/m (dry basis, oven-dried at 103±2°C)

Copper (Cu)

Contaminants - Heavy Metals · FSSAI

Limit: 150 ppm (mg/kg or mg/L)

Lead (Pb)

Contaminants - Heavy Metals · FSSAI

Limit: 5.0 on dry matter basis ppm (mg/kg or mg/L)

Iron Filing

Process/Safety Parameters · FSSAI

Limit: Not more than 125 mg/Kg

2,4-D Amine Salt

Pesticide Residues · FSSAI

Limit: 0.05* mg/kg

Bifenthrin

Pesticide Residues · FSSAI

Limit: 30 mg/kg

Bitertanol

Pesticide Residues · FSSAI

Limit: 0.05* mg/kg

Reference compiled from FSSAI regulations. Limits change by notification — verify against the latest FSSAI gazette before use.

Making or selling food? Know what to test before you send a sample

  • See the tests and limits FSSAI sets for your product, grouped by type
  • Plan the periodic lab testing your FSSAI licence asks for
  • Send one enquiry and get a quote from a food testing lab

Run a food testing lab? Quote FSSAI tests in one click

AION CRM puts every enquiry in one place and builds the quotation from the product's FSSAI tests, so your team stops copying test lists from PDFs.

  1. 1Enquiry
  2. 2Product
  3. 3FSSAI tests
  4. 4Quotation
  5. 5Follow-up
  • Search a product inside any quotation and add its FSSAI tests as quote lines, with the limit and method on each
  • Set your price per test and send the quotation as a PDF on WhatsApp or email
  • Website, WhatsApp and email enquiries land in one lead board, each with an owner and a follow-up
  • Ask us about testing enquiries from food businesses in your city
How Qualitek Labs runs enquiries and quotations on AION CRM

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Food business: tell us the product and we'll come back with the full FSSAI test list and a quote from a testing lab. Testing lab: we'll show you the FSSAI quote builder on your own tests.

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