Food Safety and Security (FSSA Authorisations — Administration) Regulations 2025

No. S 713

Food Safety and Security Act 2025

Food Safety and Security
(FSSA Authorisations — Administration)
Regulations 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 307 and 308 of the Food Safety and Security Act 2025, the Singapore Food Agency, with the approval of the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations are the Food Safety and Security (FSSA Authorisations — Administration) Regulations 2025 and come into operation on 28 November 2025.

Definitions

2.—(1)  In these Regulations —

“applicant” means the person who makes an application, or on whose behalf an application is made, to the Agency for an FSSA authorisation to be granted to the person;

“application” means an application for an FSSA authorisation;

“contact address” means the address of —

(a) for a partnership (other than a limited liability partnership) — the partnership’s principal place of business in Singapore or elsewhere;

(b) for a body corporate — the body corporate’s registered office or principal office in Singapore or elsewhere;

(c) for an unincorporated association — the unincorporated association’s principal office in Singapore or elsewhere;

(d) for an individual carrying on business as a sole proprietor — the principal place of business in Singapore or elsewhere; or

(e) for any other individual — the individual’s place of residence or workplace in Singapore;

“FSSA authorisation” means a pre‑market approval with respect to a novel food or a genetically modified food;

“identity particulars” means —

(a) for an individual —

(i) the full name of the individual;

(ii) the number of the individual’s identity card, or of the individual’s passport or work pass if he or she is not a citizen of Singapore; and

(iii) the nationality of the individual; or

(b) for an entity —

(i) the full name of the entity;

(ii) the country where the entity was incorporated or otherwise formed; and

(iii) the Unique Entity Number (UEN) of the entity, where available;

“intellectual property right” means a right conferred by any patent, copyright, trade mark, registered design, geographical indication or the grant of protection of a plant variety.

(2)  Where the time specified by these Regulations for doing any act expires on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, the act is on time if done on the next following day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.

How to apply

3.  An application for an FSSA authorisation must be made in a form approved by the Agency and be made in one of the following ways:

(a) by sending an email to the email address at [email protected];

(b) in the case of a malfunction or failure of the email address in paragraph (a) or other exceptional circumstances — by sending by post to the Agency at the National Centre for Food Science, situated at 7 International Business Park, Singapore 609919.

Who to apply

4.—(1)  Except as provided in paragraph (2), an application for an FSSA authorisation has to be made by the person —

(a) who owns an intellectual property right associated with the novel food or genetically modified food which is the subject of the application; or

(b) who holds a licence from the owner of an intellectual property right mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a), conferring on the licensee, or on the licensee and persons authorised by the licensee, any right to supply in Singapore the novel food or genetically modified food which is the subject of the application, that the owner would, but for the licence, have the exclusive right to do.

(2)  An application for an FSSA authorisation may also be made on behalf of the person mentioned in paragraph (1) by the person’s agent.

When to apply

5.—(1)  Subject to paragraph (2), an application for an FSSA authorisation with respect to a novel food or a genetically modified food must be made at least 9 months before the date the supply in Singapore of the novel food or genetically modified food is proposed to start.

(2)  The Agency may accept and consider an application for an FSSA authorisation that is made in a shorter time than is specified in paragraph (1) in any case where the Agency is reasonably satisfied that an earlier application could not have been made.

What is needed in application: general

6.—(1)  For the purposes of section 292(2)(b) and (d) of the Act, every application for an FSSA authorisation must be accompanied by the following, if not waived under regulation 7 or 9:

(a) the application fee specified in the First Schedule for the FSSA authorisation;

(b) the identity particulars, telephone number, email address and contact address of the applicant;

(c) where the application is made by an agent on behalf of the applicant ⸺ the identity particulars, telephone number, email address and contact address of the agent;

(d) the special information specified in the Second Schedule in respect of the subject of the application;

(e) documents and other evidence of the information mentioned in sub‑paragraphs (b), (c) and (d);

(f) any other information that the Agency specifies that it requires to decide the application, and documents and other evidence of that other information.

(2)  An authorised officer may require an applicant for an FSSA authorisation to amend and re-submit any information contained in or accompanying the application for the purpose of assessing the application by the applicant.

Waiver of application requirement

7.  Despite anything in these Regulations, an authorised officer may, in any particular case and if satisfied that it is just and equitable, waive any requirement in regulation 5 or 6, as the case may be.

Fees

8.  Every fee specified in these Regulations must be paid in full when due unless regulation 9 applies.

Waiver, etc., of fees

9.  An authorised officer may in any particular case, and if satisfied that it is just and equitable —

(a) refund, in whole or part, any fee mentioned in these Regulations that has been paid; or

(b) waive or reduce, in whole or part, any fee payable under these Regulations.

Made on 19 November 2025.

LIM CHUAN POH

Chairperson,
Singapore Food Agency.

[AG/LEGIS/SL/111D/2025/1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 316 of the Food Safety and Security Act 2025).