The reader will find the answer to topical issue of the present in a material: how to choose more healthy products for decrease in risk of diseases.
PRACTICE testifies that people can lead healthy and active life till 70-80 years under a condition if will adhere to an optimum diet and to support physical activity.
In all countries major factors of risk for health is the high content of fats, sugar and insufficient quantity of nutritious microcells in consumed foodstuff.
Marking of products helps consumers to choose more healthy products for decrease in risk of the diseases connected with a food.
The marking problem – one of the most debatable in the sphere of food policy also is the central theme of the international negotiations within the commission the Code Alimentarius – public body of Food and agricultural organization of the United Nations and World Health Organization to which development of the general agreement on key problems of safety of foodstuff is charged.
EXPERIMENT OF OTHER COUNTRIES ON PRODUCTION MARKING
Great Britain the first in Europe started to inform consumers on qualitative structure of products for the purpose of the prevention of diseases. Till 2007 the British state program of marking of foodstuff with the high content of sugar, salt and fats was supported only by two producers. Since the beginning of last year the largest British producers of foodstuff started to realize the alternative GDA program (a grant on a daily food). Like a traffic light, GDAsostoit program marking from three levels designated green, yellow and red flowers, and also admissible contents in products of fats, salt and sugar for each of these levels.
Production grown up with use of chemical preparations or containing genetically modified components, should have distinctive marking.
In this question a good practice of the USA where national rules of marking of non-polluting products are developed by the Ministry of agriculture of the USA and are presented for discussion at the end of 1997. According to these rules, it is impossible to consider "natural" the products received by means of methods of biotechnologies, genetic engineering, and also grown up with use of the fertilizers, processed by herbicides, pesticides.
Product designation natural 100 % means that it contains only non-polluting natural raw materials and components. Product designation "natural" testifies to the maintenance of 95 % of components of a natural origin, and designation is made with use of natural components means existence in a product of components of a natural origin in number of 50-75 %.
The composition of natural components is specified in the product declaration. It is forbidden to designate as "natural" or it is made with use of natural components products in which the content of natural components is lower than 50 %.
CURRENT STATE OF MARKING OF FOODSTUFF IN UKRAINE
By article 15 of the Law of Ukraine About protection of the rights of consumers it is defined that the consumer has the right to obtaining necessary, available, reliable and timely information on an acquired product.
Information should contain data on the main properties of foodstuff: structure, weight, volume; food and power value; about the content of unhealthy substances; about existence of genetically modified components; an expiration date, and also other information established by state standards on a concrete product. The producer is obliged to inform the consumer on influence of acquired production on health of the person and environment.
However in practice, producers mostly ignore this article of the Law, and instructions on existence as a part of production of genetically modified components – completely don’t carry out.
A significant amount of the agricultural production made on the basis of methods of genetic engineering and used by domestic enterprises as raw materials for the food industry is imported into Ukraine. Therefore it is necessary to establish requirements to marking not only finished product, but also raw materials at its import on custom territory of Ukraine.
As a whole, system of marking of foodstuff in Ukraine as the important direction of food policy of the state, needs further development and improvement.
It is necessary to continue development of fundamental principles and standards for marking of foodstuff, settlements of procedure of marking of the agricultural goods which have been grown up with application of genetically modified organisms, and also to use modern methods and principles of an assessment of the risks defined by agreements of the World Trade Organization, Commission documents the Code Alimentarius and the International convention about protection of plants.
(On magazine materials Harchova ipererobna promislovist).