SANІTARY-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF IMPORTED FOODSTUFFS AND EDIBLE RAW MATERIALS AS A COMPONENT OF TRANSPORT MEDICINE PREVENTIVE WORK
Sanіtary-epidemiological examination of imported foodstuffs and edible raw materials (then «examination») is one of the priority directions of transport sanіtary-epidemiological servise. Examination controls, discovers and prevents an influence of dangerous factors while in transportation of loads. So it’s one of the component of the transport medicine preventive activity. Examination of import foodstuffs and edible raw materials inseparably linked with and based on general principles of the food safety state policy. The foundation of the sanitary service work is the normative base, that was formed in our country about twenty years ago. It is necessary to review the mechanism of the food safety determination and its criteria in accordance with requirements of present-day time and with account of the development of the international relations. One of taken steps in this direction is a characteristic of examination in law «About contributing the modification to law of the Ukraine «About quality and safety of foodstuffs and foodraw materials» where along with determination of the products correspondence to the normative requirements is provided for risk assessment of the harmful factors in process of the turn of the food-stuffs. Such approach corresponds with modern requests to decision of the prophylactic problems, prevention bad influence dangerous factors, management sanіtary-epidemiological situation in general and in step of transportation food cargo in particular. And it should be taken into account during the further necessary process of revision and forming the new normative base.