Veterinary and sanitary measures to ensure food and environmental safety and digital technologies

Abstract

Food security includes several components, one of which is to provide the country’s population with safe and high—quality food, including animal products. Regulatory legal acts of Russia, as well as the Eurasian Economic Union, fixing veterinary and sanitary requirements for the production and sale of such products, as well as requirements for preventing hazardous biological waste from animal husbandry from entering the environment, are aimed at achieving this goal. The Rosselkhoznadzor carries out control and supervisory activities to comply with these requirements using digital technologies, in particular, the Federal State Information System in the Field of Veterinary Medicine (FGIS VetIS). Based on the analysis of judicial practice, it is concluded that the use of this information system ensures the prevention of low-quality and unsafe animal products on the consumer market, the detection of violations of veterinary legislation, legislation on environmental protection and thereby contributes to ensuring food and environmental safety.