Assessment and classification of food products as per health risks caused by chemical and microbiological contamination

Bogdanova, O.G.; Molchanova, O.A.; Tarmaeva, I.Yu.; Efimova, N.V.

doi:10.21668/health.risk/2021.1.06

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“…Санитарно-эпидемиологический контроль за продукцией, обращаемой на потребительском рынке России, осуществляется Федеральной службой в сфере защиты прав потребителей и благополучия человека. Контроль ведется с учетом потенциальных рисков, которые продукция может формировать в отношении здоровья населения [1,4,6,11,12,13,15].…”

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Safety of Milk and Meat Products in the Russian Federation in Dynamics: Results of Sanitary-Epidemiological Control (2013-2022)

May,

Nikiforova

2023

SJLSA

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Background. The study addresses an extremely important issue, namely quality and safety of meat and milk products that are consumed daily by majority of the population in the Russian Federation. Aim. To investigate safety of animal food products (meat and milk products) in dynamics. Materials and methods. We performed retrospective analysis of the branch statistical report with the results of control (surveillance) over milk and meat products obtained in the period between 2013 and 2022. We estimated safety levels in dynamics and spatial distribution of shares of unsafe goods as per priority indicators. Results. Frequency of cases when mandatory requirements to safety of milk and meat products were violated amounted to 4.0 % and approximately 3.0 % accordingly. Hygienic requirements were most frequently violated as per microbiological and physical-chemical indicators, 3.84 % and 2.69 % accordingly for meat products and 4.2 % and 6.0 % accordingly for milk products. We analyzed safety of meat products in dynamics and established positive trends to be rather weak and multidirectional as per different indicators; as for milk products, shares of unsafe products went down as per all the standardized indicators except from sanitary-chemical ones. Conclusion. Our study didn’t reveal any obvious positive dynamics (descending trends) in the shares of food product samples deviating from the safety standards. This means it is necessary to improve the current system for control (surveillance) over meat and milk products. More effective control (surveillance) can be provided by creating ‘risk profiles’ of a product with information about the most risky indicators to describe hazards associated with it. These indicators should be the first to be included into programs of product laboratory testing. In addition, it is vital to create regional registers of food products assigned into specific categories as per associated health risks. Such registers can also be used to select groups and types of products that should be covered by surveillance. The development of the risk-based surveillance can facilitate elimination of low quality and unsafe food products form the market.

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Safety of Milk and Meat Products in the Russian Federation in Dynamics: Results of Sanitary-Epidemiological Control (2013-2022)

May,

Nikiforova

2023

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“…The document also allows assigning food products into specific categories as per health risks taking into account frequency of violations of mandatory requirements to safety and severity of probable health disorders among consumers given the current consumption of a specific food product, both values being statistically established at a given moment (period) of time. The document is widely used in practice by Rospotrebnadzor regional offices [22,23].…”

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On issues related to national risk-based system for control over food products distributed on the market

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Kiryanov³

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This research is vital given great significance of food safety for population and bearing in mind that food products are an independent object of sanitary-epidemiologic control as it is stipulated by the legislation. We suggest approaches to creating a risk-based model for control over food products distributed on the market. These ap-proaches involve categorizing food products as per potential health risks for consumers; building up risk profiles of food products; optimizing laboratory support provided for control and surveillance activities taking into account food products safety management. When categorizing food products, risk is assessed as a combination of probable violation of obligatory requirements to safety and severity of consequences these violations might have. Food products that are assigned into extremely high, high and considerable risk categories are subject to systemic control once a year, every two years or every three years accordingly. In case a surveillance object seems “law-abiding’, its category and intensity of control procedures may be changed. Programs for laboratory control over food products are suggested to be based on risk profiles, spotting out priority indicators that make major contributions into risks. Also the approach involves using mathematical models that describe a relation between a number of observations and an expected answer (as a reduction in quantities of deviating samples at the next stage in the control cycle). This model determines how many samples of priority indicators should be tested in order to achieve a target risk level. It also allows predict an expected number of violations and health risk rates at the next stage in the control cycle given the present number of observations. 85 regional registers of food products were created and categories were determined as per health risks for all groups of food products under surveillance. It was shown that in some cases it was necessary to increase a number of observations over priority (“risky”) indicators in order to detect hazardous products and withdraw them from the market. Certain examinations seem redundant as they don’t play any role in making control procedures more efficient. The suggested approaches are universal and dynamic. Basic trends in the model development may include more targeted selection of products for control; risk profiles creations and systemic actualization; further development of laboratory support for control (surveillance) given that the food products market is changing dynamically in the country.

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Assessment and classification of food products as per health risks caused by chemical and microbiological contamination

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References 12 publications

Safety of Milk and Meat Products in the Russian Federation in Dynamics: Results of Sanitary-Epidemiological Control (2013-2022)

Safety of Milk and Meat Products in the Russian Federation in Dynamics: Results of Sanitary-Epidemiological Control (2013-2022)

On issues related to national risk-based system for control over food products distributed on the market

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