Safety Requirements and Nutritional Value of Food
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Approved by Decision of the Customs Union Commission No. 299 dated 28 May, 2010 Uniform sanitary and epidemiological and hygienic requirements for products subject to sanitary and epidemiological supervision (control) (as amended by Decisions of the Customs Union Commission N 341 of 17.08.2010, N 456 of 18.11.2010, No 622 of 7 April 2011 and N 889 of 09.12.2011) Chapter II Part 1. Requirements for safety and nutrition value of food products 1. Uniform sanitary and epidemiological and hygienic requirements for safety and nutrition value of food products 1.1. Area of application 1. Sanitary and epidemiological and hygienic safety requirements (hereinafter referred to as “Uniform sanitary requirements”) shall be applied to food products according to products classification based on Customs Union Uniform FEACN codes (hereinafter referred to as CU FEACN). 2. This part of Uniform sanitary requirements is developed based on the legislation of the Customs Union states-members, as well as the international documents in the field of food products safety. 1.2. Terms and Definitions 3. This part of Uniform sanitary requirements uses the following terms and definitions for the purposes of this document: 1) “food products” – natural and processed type food products taken by a man as a food (including food for children, clinical nutrition food and other specialized foodstuffs), drinking water packed up in containers (bottled drinking water), alcoholic products (including beer), non-alcoholic drinks, chewing-gum, as well as food raw materials, food additives and biologically active additives. Requirements for water packed up in containers (bottled drinking water) are determined in other parts of the uniform sanitary requirements; 2) “biologically active additives to food (hereinafter referred to as “BAAs”)” are the products containing nutrient and (or) biologically active substances (their concentrates) of natural or artificial origin (identical to the natural), as well as prebiotic components and probiotic microorganisms, which are meant to be taken at the same time with food for optimisation of human ration and which are not the only source of food or dietary nutrition; 3) “food additive” is any substance (or mix of substances) not consumed by human directly as a food and meant to be included in food product when produced for technological purposes (function), including giving it a certain organoleptic properties and (or) preservation of quality and safety for determined period of use, which can perform several technological functions; 4) “specialized food products” are foodstuffs with the set chemical composition for various categories of population and (or) different physiological states. 5) “adequate consumption level” is the daily consumption level of nutrient and biologically active substances, established on the basis of calculated and observed quantities or levels of consumption of, nutrient and biologically active substances by a group /groups of almost healthy people»; 6) “maximum permissible consumption level” is the highest daily consumption level of nutrient and biologically active substances, which does not present danger of development of adverse impact on health state indicators of almost all persons of the general population older than 18 years»; 7) “norms of physiological need” is an averaged amount of the necessary intake of nutrient and biologically active substances, which ensure the optimal realization of physiological and biochemical processes inherent to human genotype». 8) “early-aged children” are children aged from 0 months to 3 years». 4. Terms not specially determined in this part are used in meanings established by the national legislation of the Customs Union states-members, as well as the international agreements concluded within the framework of Customs Union and Eurasian economical community. 1.3. General provisions 5. Foodstuffs shall satisfy physiological human needs in necessary substances and energy, comply with requirements usually set for foodstuffs in terms of organoleptic and physical and chemical indices and conform with the requirements established by normative documents for allowed content of chemical, biologically active substances and their compounds, microorganisms and other organisms posing danger for health of present and future generations. 6. Radiation indices of foodstuffs safety are established by Annex 3 to the Uniform sanitary requirements. 7. At development of new types of foodstuffs (obtained from non- traditional types of raw materials), new technological processes of manufacture, packing, storage, transportation of food products (not used before in the territory of Customs Union states-members) the individual entrepreneurs and legal entities shall substantiate the requirements for safety and nutritional value, period of use, as well as shall develop the test methodologies. Manufacture of new foodstuffs in the territory of Customs Union states- members, food products import to the territory of Customs Union states-members, which is carried out for the first time, shall be admitted only after their inspection for compliance with the Uniform sanitary requirements. 8. Imported foodstuffs shall be subject to inspection for compliance with the Uniform sanitary requirements before their import to the territory of Customs Union states-members. 9. Food products received and being in circulation in the territory of Customs Union states-members shall be accompanied by manufacturer’s (supplier’s) document confirming their safety. 10. Based on results of inspection for compliance with the Uniform sanitary requirements the authorized bodies issue a document confirming products (goods) safety. 11. Information on using (or absence of such) the pesticides at cultivation of agricultural crops, fumigation of premises and tare for their storage, fight with food reserves pests shall be available for vegetable origin food stock without fail. 12. For animal origin food stock it is mandatory to have information of using (or absence of such) the pesticides in the fight with ectoparasites or diseases of animals and poultry, processing of stock building and poultry farms, pond fish farms and fish reservoirs, bee families with stating the name of pesticides, as well as veterinary drugs used for fattening up, treatment and prevention of diseases of cattle, birds, fish of pond and cage culture fishery and bee families with stating the name of veterinary drugs. 13. Import and circulation of food stock of vegetable and animal origin without information of use (or absence of such) of pesticides and/or veterinary drugs at its production are not allowed. 14. For processing of poultry trunks it is prohibited to use solutions containing chlorine in concentrations exceeding the requirements for drinking water. 15. Food stock and food products shall be packed up and packed in materials permitted for contact with food products in such a way that allows ensuring preservation of their quality and safety at storage, transportation and sale. 16. It is not allowed to use the poultry meat, except for the chilled one, mechanically deboned meat and collagen-containing poultry meat stock for manufacture of children’s food (for all age groups, including for organized children collectives), clinical (treatment and prevention) nutrition, specialized foodstuffs for pregnant women and nursing mothers, fine foods from poultry meat (pastrami, raw jerked and raw smoked foodstuffs). Poultry meat, except from chilled meat, cannot be used in production of chilled natural semi-finished products from poultry meat and foodstuffs from poultry meat without thermal treatment. 1.4. General requirements for food products marking 17. Food products marking shall comply with the national legislation of the Customs Union states-members. 18. For a certain types of food products (children, clinical and specialized nutrition, probiotic products, food additives, biologically active additives, foodstuffs containing components obtained using the genetically modified organisms (hereinafter referred to as “GMO”) etc.) it is necessary to state the following: - area of use (for children, clinical and specialized nutrition, food additives, aromatizers, biologically active additives); - name of ingredients in composition of food product, food additives, germ cultures, ferments and substances used to enrich the food products; in BAAs to food and enriched products for biologically active components it is necessary to state percent of daily physiological need, as determined by the national legislation of the Customs Union states-members, if such need is established; - recommendations on use, application, if necessary, contraindication to their use; - for biologically active additives the information “It is not a drug” is mandatory; - for food products obtained using GMO, including those not containing deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and protein, the following information is mandatory: “genetically modified product” or “product obtained from genetically modified organisms” or “product contains genetically modified organisms components” (content of 0.9% and less components obtained using GMO in food products is random or technically irremovable admixture and the food products containing the stated quantity of GMP components are not referred to the category of foodstuffs containing components obtained using GMO); - for food products obtained from/or using genetically modified microorganisms (bacteria, yeasts and filamentous fungi, of which genetic material is changed