How is certification of food?

Food for people are the material in which they are a special kind of energy necessary for the stable functioning of a living organism as a whole.

Typology

edible divided into the following groups:

  • Herbal Products.These include fruits, vegetables, and grains, nut fruit, various herbs, spices.
  • The provision from animal sources - the meat of mammals, birds, fish and fish eggs, a variety of seafood, eggs and milk.
  • Other organic food properties (regardless of origin): fungi, yeasts, sweet honey, etc.
  • Inorganic products, including salt and all kinds of food additives.
  • foods derived by processing - canned food, confectionery and baked goods, cheeses, juices and more.

State control

Certification of food is carried out to confirm their compliance with the standards prescribed by the legislation of Russia.The certificate should be issued only to those types of provisions that are listed in the list of goods designated government decree № 982. Here, all units edible grouped by individual number of OKP (Russian Classification of Products).Then the certification of food products meant holding their sanitary-epidemiological control.However, after the introduction of Komtamsoyuza Decision 299 / 28.05.2010 of the uniform nomenclature of food to be unchanging FDA, the document was abolished.Instead, the steel used allow other paper, sanitary regulations bezopasnost.Registratsiya

to issue certificates for food, to testify the state registration.This requirement has concerned provisions of the following groups:

  • products intended for children;
  • for sports nutrition;
  • food for pregnant women;
  • products using GMOs;
  • biologically active additives;
  • organic products;
  • diverse nutritional supplements.

The successful confirmation of sanitary-epidemiological and hygienic safety of other types of food, Certification of food involves the mandatory presence of an expert opinion of Rospotrebnadzor.

Creation of permits

Certification of food takes place in several stages.First filled application for a certificate is going to the following documentation:

  • constituent business papers;
  • certificate of registration;
  • number of the taxpayer;
  • specifications;
  • information about the manufacturer;
  • catalog of products produced by the enterprise;
  • composition of the product, information about the methods of production;
  • previously existing certification documents;
  • state expert conclusion Rospotrebnadzor;
  • forms of laboratory research protocols;
  • samples of food.

After reviewing the documentation, the Certification Authority should send samples of food for special expertise.Next, a special body shall verify the information provided.Based on the results of research, he receives a positive or a negative decision.

Each document has a unique number.Its validity depends on how the scheme will be certified foods.Basically it is a period of one to three years.If the validity of the document exceeds one year, in which case the issuer of his annually obliged to carry out a planned inspection control products.