title: [On the need to improve the system for the prevention of falsification of food products in the Eurasian Economic Union].
abstract: Adulteration of food is misleading consumers about the composition of foods in order to obtain economic benefits. Olive oil, wine and other alcoholic beverages, spices, tea, fish, honey, milk and dairy products, meat products, cereal products, beverages based on fruit juices, spices, coffee are falsified with the highest frequency. In addition, sufficient data on the frequency of adulterated food products are missing not only in Russia but also in the developed countries. This is because the purpose of the manufacturer and distributors of such products is primarily an economic advantage. Therefore, the majority of incidents of falsification of food products remained undetected since their production, generally had not led to the risk of food safety, and consumers often did not notice the reduction in quality of foodstuffs. The analysis of international data and data of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has shown that, in order to improve the quality of food products and to reduce sales of adulterated food the following steps should be done: introduce the definition of falsificated food products into legislation of the EAEU; expand the list of methods for confirming the authenticity of the food and detecting the presence of substances which are not permitted for usage in the food industry; consolidate the principle of the responsibility of all participants in the treatment of food that does not comply with the mandatory requirements at the legislative level; introduce the indicators of the quality of foodstuffs in the technical regulations of the EAEU; return to the mandatory requirements for the quality of foods given in the interstate and state standards.
authors.forename: O V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Arnautov
authors.forename: O V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Bagryantseva
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Bessonov
mesh_terms: D005062:European Union; D005502:Food / Q000592:standards*; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control; D005515:Food Labeling / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D063427:Food Quality; D033161:Government Regulation; D007881:Legislation, Food