Food safety monitoring in the course of state veterinary control (supervision)

Abstract

The article analyzes the state veterinary laboratory monitoring in the implementation of federal state veterinary control (supervision). Studied the regulatory framework for food safety. The data on the number of samples taken and the results of laboratory studies of samples of food products, feed and feed additives for veterinary safety for the period 2020-2022 for the subjects of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region were analyzed. Sampling is carried out by specialists of the NorthWestern Interregional Directorate of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance as part of safety monitoring for research at the testing centers of Rosselkhoznadzor. The task of conducting laboratory studies (tests) of the safety of goods subject to veterinary control (supervision) is to establish compliance or non-compliance of goods subject to veterinary control (supervision) with the unified veterinary (veterinary and sanitary) requirements of the Eurasian Union.

To ensure the quality and safety of food products, it is necessary to control their compliance with the mandatory requirements of the technical regulations of the Eurasian Economic Union; improve the organization of quality control and food safety, including the creation of a modern technical and methodological base; improve mechanisms to encourage producers to produce food products that meet the principles of healthy nutrition, including agricultural products, raw materials and food that meet established veterinary and other requirements; to strengthen the administrative responsibility of food producers and officials for violation of the mandatory requirements for food products established in the acts constituting the law of the Eurasian Economic Union and in the regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation.