State control (supervision) over the quality and safety of agricultural products (on the example of the Sverdlovsk region)

The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor), located in the structure of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, implements control and supervisory activities by a specially authorized state authority in the field of quality and safety of agricultural products, raw materials and food, checks legal entities and individual entrepreneurs in the implementation of their activities, compliance with its requirements, established by federal laws and other regulatory legal acts of the state executive authority in this area. Structural divisions of the Rosselkhoznadzor, for example, the Rosselkhoznadzor Administration for the Sverdlovsk Region, exist in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Specialists of this structure carry out functional control and supervisory measures to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products produced in the Sverdlovsk Region and imported from other regions of the Russian Federation and abroad. Legal regulation of relations in this area is carried out by federal laws, resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation and other regulatory legal acts that differentially regulate certain areas in the field of quality and safety of agricultural raw materials of plant and animal origin.