What our certifications actually mean, honest status on what's still in progress, and how overseas orders are fulfilled.
FSSAI is India's statutory food safety regulator, operating under the Food Safety and Standards Act. An FSSAI license means a facility's manufacturing process and hygiene practices have met the baseline food-safety requirements for its licensed category and production scale. It is a legal requirement to manufacture and sell food in India, not an optional or elective premium quality mark — every food business in the country needs FSSAI registration or licensing at some tier. R.A.M. Papad's FSSAI license is a current, active credential, and documentation is available to distributors, OEM buyers and importers during onboarding.
Udyam is the Government of India's MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) registration. It identifies R.A.M. Papad as a registered small/medium enterprise, which supports eligibility for government MSME schemes and some export-promotion assistance. It is important to be precise here: Udyam registration is a business-category registration, not a food-safety certification. It does not test, inspect or certify the safety of food products the way an FSSAI license does. Buyers who assume "Udyam registered" implies food-safety testing are conflating two different things — the FSSAI license is the credential that speaks to food safety.
R.A.M. Papad is actively pursuing ISO food safety management certification and APEDA (Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority) registration. Neither is completed yet — both are honestly framed as "in progress" rather than implied as already held. APEDA registration, once complete, is the body that formally supports and facilitates exports of agricultural and processed food products from India; it is a step R.A.M. Papad is working toward to strengthen its export credentials, alongside the FSSAI license and Udyam registration it already holds. Buyers whose import requirements are conditional on ISO or APEDA being complete should factor in this current, in-progress status; FSSAI and Udyam documentation can be shared today via the Certifications page.
R.A.M. Papad does not hold a direct export license and does not run its own overseas distribution. Instead, international orders are routed through trusted partner export agents based on confirmed orders — R.A.M. Papad manufactures, packs and dispatches to the agreed logistics point, and the appointed agents handle last-mile execution and delivery in the destination market. Current export markets reached through this partner-agent model are UAE, Canada, Australia and USA, in addition to domestic supply across India. Container-load export orders are welcome and are coordinated with partner export agents on a case-by-case basis. This model applies to both bulk distributor-style export orders and OEM/private label orders destined for overseas brands. Full detail on markets and the agent model is on the Export Program page.
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