Bureau of indian standard(BSI)

1. BUREAU OF INDIAN
STANDARD (BIS)

2. Why need to follow Food Regulations?
■ Food Regulations and standards have become a sensitive subject and the
regulation of the quality of the food product the object of increasing
public interest.
■ Quality is being the first consideration for the consumer acceptance.
■ This is linked with recognized national and international standards.
■ This will be reflected to the national and international markets .
■ It will helps to manufacturer to be able to design , produce and market
product.
■ And also full fill the consumer’s needs of quality features and using up to
date technologies.
■ Compliance with these standards is ensured through the use of regulatory
standards and quality assurance system.

3. Standardization systems in India
■ Voluntary standards:
■ Bureau of Indian standards (BIS)
■ Agmark
■ FSSAI
■ Directorate of marketing and inspections (DMI)
■ ISO standards
■ IEC

4. What is BIS?
■ The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the national Standards
Body of India working under the aegis of Ministry of
Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, and
Government of India.
■ It is established by the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986
which came into effect on 23 December 1986.
■ BIS covers the standardization process in the food and other
related products industry in India. BIS has 500 plus scientific
officers working as Certification Officers, Member secretaries
of technical committees and lab.
■ It resolves to be the leader in all matters concerning
Standardization. Certification and Quality. Bureau of Indian
standards (BIS)

5. A New BIS
■ A new Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) Act 2016 which was notified on
22 March 2016, has been brought into force with effect from 12 October
2017.
■ The Act establishes the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) as the National
Standards Body of India.
OBJECTIVES OF BIS
■ Harmonious development of the activities of standardization, making and
quality certification of goods.
■ To provide thrust to standardization and quality control for growth and
development of industry on one hand and to meet the needs of consumers
on the other.

6. Functions of BIS
■ For protecting the consumer from hazardous products.
■ For promoting consumer confidence.
■ For providing a safeguard to the public health.
■ For providing quality assurance.

7. Features and Role of BIS
■ The BIS seeks to ensure better product development, safeguard
the environment, reduce health hazards and curb the
proliferation of the goods. The following are the features
performed by BIS:
■ Enables the GOI for hallmarking schemes for precious metals
which is necessary for certification.
■ Enables any third-party agencies to certify and enforce the
standards.
■ Eliminates sub-standard products by mandating marking
requirements.
■ Facilitates third-party lab services for product testing.

8. ■ Formulates and implements standards for various products
with the aid of relevant government departments.
■ The Act has identified new areas for standardisation such as:
■ Medical devices
■ Smart cities
■ E-mobility
■ New and renewable energy
■ Digital technology
■ Alternate fuels

9. Logo of BIS

10. BIS Headquarters
■ Headquarters at New Delhi
■ 05 Regional Offices (Ros)
■ Kolkata (Eastern)
■ Chennai (Southern)
■ Mumbai (Western)
■ Chandigarh (Northern)
■ Delhi (Central).

13. Main Activities or Involvement Of BIS
■ Standards Formulation
■ Product Certification Scheme
■ Compulsory Registration Scheme
■ Foreign Manufacturers Certification Scheme
■ Hall Marking Scheme
■ Laboratory Services
■ Laboratory Recognition Scheme
■ Sale of Indian Standards
■ Consumer Affairs Activities
■ Promotional Activities
■ Training Services, National & International level information Services

14. STANDARD FORMULATION
BIS formulates Indian Standards in the line with the national priorities
for various sectors that have been grouped under 14 departments like
■ Chemicals • Metallurgical Engineering
■ Food and Agriculture • Petroleum Coal & related products
■ Civil Department • Electro-Technical
■ Textile • Mechanical Engineering
■ Transport Engineering • Production General Engineering
■ Management Systems •Water Resources
■ Medical equipment and Hospital Planning
■ Electronics & Information Technology

15. PRODUCT CERTIFICATION
■ BIS certification process is a mandatory scheme which has to
be followed by all the manufacturers when they have to sell
goods in the market. This process id has been done before
ensuring license to the manufacturer to ensure capability and
test the product to its conformity according to the standards.

16. Hallmarking
■ Hallmarking is a process of purification and verification wherein articles
such as gold, platinum, silver, etc so that consumers can be safe when
they are purchasing a genuine and legitimate product. The principal
objective of the Hallmarking Scheme is to protect the public against
adulteration to maintain legal standards of fineness. This process of
accurate determination is a vital part of when an article is being
purchased

17. HALLMARKING
■ Hallmarking of gold
jewellery was started by
BIS in April 2000 to
provide third party
assurance to consumes on
the purity of gold
jewellery or its fineness.
■ The scheme for
hallmarking of silver
jewellery/artefacts was
launched in October 2005

18. LABORATORY SERVICES
■ To protect consumer’s interest , BIS operates various
conformity assessment schemes. Under these schemes, BIS
grants licenses/registrations to such manufacturers who are
capable of producing goods conforming to relevant Indian
Standards, on continuous basis.
■ To support these scheme, which requires testing of products on
regular basis for checking conformity to the relevant Indian
Standards, BIS has established a network of eight laboratories.

19. TRAINING SERVICES
■ BIS imparts training through National institute of training for
Standardization(NITS) to the technical and management
personnel from industry, consumer organisations, public sector
undertakings, government bodies.
■ The institute also conducts international training programmes
for developing countries under different cooperation schemes
of government of India.

20. CONSUMER AFFAIRS
■ Consumer awareness programmes
■ Industry awareness programmes
■ Educational utilization of standards programmes

21. BIS License Process
■ Apply to BIS permission, to use ISI mark on products
■ Inspection of factory by BIS personnel
■ Verify the capabilities of manufacture to produce and also test
the products on continuous basis in accordance with the
relevant Indian standards . QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM
measures at various stages like : raw material stages of
production, finished product stage (supervisory to ensure the
quality)
■ QUALITY AUDIT SYSTEM under which they draw the
samples from factory store. They also check quality of the
Products and other facilities and after satisfying themselves
they give permission to use ISI mark.

24. Labelling requirements On Bis certified Products
■ Name of Product (Category)
■ Model Number
■ Brand Name
■ Mfg date
■ Best before time / date
■ Power Rating (Input / Output)
■ Name of Manufacturer Made in Country Name (Like Made In
India, Made In China etc.)