Soybean meal is an important component of poultry and fish feed formulations. Soybean cultivation and use date back to China's agrarian era. Its usage for human consumption is mentioned in Chinese medicinal collections reaching back 6,000 years. For generations, soybean has meant oil, bread, cheese, milk, and meat to the people of Indonesia, the Philippines, Manchuria, Korea, Japan, and China. Soybeans are an oilseed crop that provides food for wildlife, birds, and humans. Acetochlor and clomazone are two insecticides that are commonly employed to safeguard soybeans from weeds and are both highly problematic. The goal of this research was to see the effect of acetochlor and clomazone on soybean food safety. Employing UPLC-MS/MS (ultraperformance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometer), acetochlor and clomazone concentrations in mature straw, mature soybean, green straw, and green soybean were measured. The RSDs (relative standard deviations) range from 2-11%, the compound recoveries varied from 86-110% at various concentration levels. 0.01 mg kg -1 was the quantitation limit for each herbicide matrix. When taken at the prescribed dose, clomazone and acetochlor residues in soybeans were all less than 0.01 mg.kg -1 at harvest. Soybean is an oilseed crop and significant edible, as well as a valuable source of human nourishment.

Relevans. Enterprises of the agri-food sector, distribution chains and other participants of the food market face increasing competitive pressure from the part of transnational companies, which causes the necessity of their adaptation to the changes taking place in the global market environment under the influence of active innovative digital activities of market participants. This article addresses the problem associated with the assessment of innovative potential and the application of innovative approaches to the transformation of Russian companies in the context of globalization and innovative digital development of the world economy.Methods. The following general scientific methods have been used in the study: situational, complex methods, system approach, as well as tabular, graphical methods, comparative analysis method, index methods, forecasting methods, factor analysis.Results. In the article, the authors assess the innovative potential of the agri-food sector, distribution chain and Russian economy as a whole, perform comparative analysis and give an evaluation of the innovative potential of the Russian Federation and other countries, regions in the context of the country's involvement in the processes of general, economic, trade, information, communication and innovative globalization, global competitiveness and global trends in the development of innovative digital activity. The article proves the need to bridge the gap in the potential of the internal innovation environment necessary for the development of the agri-food sector and distribution chain by means of creating innovative digital business models based on the implementation of the open innovations concepts. The conclusions based on the results of the study have special importance for theorists and practitioners since they supplement the existing knowledge necessary to substantiate the development strategies of companies and the country's economy as a whole transforming into a global innovative digital environment and increasing their competitiveness.

This article aims to provide a review of published academic research on the competitiveness of retailers in the context of digitalization. The input was sourced from published works indexed in the Scopus base for 2000-2020. The analysis was conducted in four stages: topical trends; keyword research; citation analysis; content analysis of the most-cited published works. The findings helped to track the evolution of research in the analyzed domain and identify four stages (2000-2003, 2004-2010, 2011-2016, 2017-present time) by distinct variation of research activity and the scope of covered problems. The findings of this review can substantiate further development of methodological approaches to studying the competitiveness of retailers in the context of digitalization and can help researchers to make more justified choices of research problems and practitioners to navigate the complicated transformations of managing competitiveness in the wake of digitalization.