Russia federal law. About quality and safety of foodstuff 31.03.2006.

(with changes from December, 30th, 2001, on January, 10th, on June, 30th, 2003, on August, 22nd, 2004, on May, 9th, 5, on December, 31st 2005, On March, 31st, 2006) It is accepted by the State Duma on December, 1st, 1999 It is approved by Council of Federation on December, 23rd, 1999

The present Federal law adjusts attitudes in the field of maintenance of quality of foodstuff and their safety for health of the person. Chapter I. General provisions Clause 1. The basic concepts With a view of the present Federal law following basic concepts are used:foodstuff - products in the natural or advanced kind, used by the person in food (including products of a children's feed, products of a dietary feed), potable water, alcoholic production (including beer), soft drinks, a chewing elastic band, and also food raw material, food additives and biologically active additives; products of a children's feed - intended for a feed of children in the age of till 14 years and meeting physiological needs of a children's organism foodstuff; products of a dietary feed - intended for a medical and preventive feed foodstuff; food raw material - raw material of a vegetative, animal, microbiological, mineral and artificial origin and the water, used for manufacturing foodstuff; food additives - natural or artificial substances and their connections specially entered into foodstuff during their manufacturing with a view of giving to foodstuff of certain properties and (or) preservation of quality of foodstuff; biologically active additives - natural (identical natural) biologically active substances intended for the use simultaneously with food or introduction in structure of foodstuff; materials and the products contacting to foodstuff (further - materials and products) - materials and the products applied to manufacturing, packing, storage, transportations, realizations and uses of foodstuff, including the process equipment, devices and devices, container, utensils, dining facilities; quality of foodstuff - set of characteristics of the foodstuff, capable to satisfy need of the person for food under usual conditions of their use; safety of foodstuff - a condition of the proved confidence that foodstuff under usual conditions of their use are not harmful and health hazards present and do not represent the future generations; food value of foodstuff - set of properties of foodstuff at which presence physiological needs of the person for necessary substances and energy are satisfied; the certificate of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products - the document in which the manufacturer certifies conformity of quality and safety of each party of foodstuff, materials and products to requirements normative, technical documentation; normative documents - state standards, sanitary and veterinary rules and the norms establishing the requirements to quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products, to the control over their quality and safety, conditions of their manufacturing, storage, transportations, realization and uses, recyclings or destructions of poor-quality, dangerous foodstuff, materials and products; technical documentation - documents according to which are carried out manufacturing, storage, transportations and realization of foodstuff, materials and products (specifications, technological instructions, compoundings and others); turn of foodstuff, materials and products - sale and purchase (including export and import) and different ways of transfer of foodstuff, materials and products (further - realization), their storage and transportations; the forged foodstuff, materials and products - foodstuff, materials and the products, deliberately changed (counterfeit) and (or) the having latent properties and quality, the information about which is obviously incomplete or doubtful; identification of foodstuff, materials and products - activity on an establishment of conformity of the certain foodstuff, materials and products to requirements normative, technical documentation and the information on foodstuff, materials and about the products, containing in documents applied on them and on labels; recycling of foodstuff, materials and products - use of poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products with a view of, the distinct from purposes for which foodstuff, materials and products are intended and in which are usually used.

Clause 2. Legal regulation of attitudes in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff Legal regulation of attitudes in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff is carried out by the present Federal law, other federal laws and other normative legal certificates of the Russian Federation accepted according to them, and also laws and other normative legal certificates of subjects of the Russian Federation. Federal laws, laws of subjects of the Russian Federation and other normative legal certificates accepted according to them regarding, concerning maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, should not contain the norms contradicting the present Federal law. If the international contract of the Russian Federation establishes other rules, than what are stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, are applied rules of the international contract.

Clause 3 foodstuff, materials and products 1. In a turn there can be foodstuff, materials and the products which corresponding requirements of normative documents and have been last the state registration by way of, established by the present Federal law. 2. There can not be in a turn foodstuff, materials and products, which: mismatch requirements of normative documents; have the obvious attributes of a poor quality which are not causing doubts at representatives of bodies, carrying out the state supervision and the control over maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff (further - bodies of the state supervision and the control) at check of such products, materials and products; have no certificates of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products, documents of the manufacturer, supplier of foodstuff, materials and the products confirming their origin concerning which there is no information on the state registration and acknowledgement of conformity to requirements of normative documents (foodstuff, materials and the products which are a subject the state registration and obligatory acknowledgement of conformity); mismatch the presented information and concerning which there are proved suspicions about their falsification; have no target dates of the validity (for foodstuff, materials and products concerning which the establishment of working lives is obligatory) or which working lives have expired; have no the marks containing data, stipulated the law or in state standard or concerning which there is no such information. Such foodstuff, materials and products admit poor-quality and dangerous and realizations are not a subject, are utilized or destroyed.

Clause 4. Maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products Quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products are provided by means of applications of measures of state regulation in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products; carrying out by citizens, including individual businessmen, and the legal persons who are carrying out activity on manufacturing and a turn of foodstuff, materials and products, organizational, veterinary, technological, nonproduction, sanitary- and fytosanitory actions on performance of requirements of normative documents to foodstuff, materials and products, conditions of their manufacturing, storage, transportations and realization; carrying out of industrial inspection behind quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products, conditions of their manufacturing, storage, transportations and realizations, introduction of control systems by quality of foodstuff, materials and products (further - systems of quality); applications of measures on suppression of infringements of the present Federal law, including requirements of normative documents, and also measures, administrative and the criminal liability to the persons guilty of fulfilment of specified infringements.

Clause 5. The information on quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products 1. Individual businessmen and the legal persons who are carrying out activity on manufacturing and a turn of foodstuff, materials and products, to rendering of services in sphere of retail trade in foodstuff, materials and products and sphere of public catering, are obliged to give to buyers or consumers, and also bodies of the state supervision and the control full both a trustworthy information about quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products, observance of requirements of normative documents at manufacturing and a turn of foodstuff, materials and products and rendering of such services. 2. Federal enforcement authority on the state supervision in the field of standardization and certifications, federal enforcement authority in the field of the state sanitary-and-epidemiologic supervision, federal enforcement authority in the field of the state veterinary supervision provide bodies of the government, citizens (including individual businessmen) and legal persons with the information on quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products, about observance of requirements of normative documents at manufacturing and a turn of foodstuff, materials and products, rendering of services in sphere of retail trade in foodstuff, materials and products and sphere of public catering, about the state registration of foodstuff, materials and products, about acknowledgement of their conformity to requirements of normative documents, And also about normative documents and measures on prevention of realization of poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products.

Chapter II. Powers of the Russian Federation in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff

Clause 6. Powers of the Russian Federation in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff 1. To powers of the Russian Federation in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff concern: development and carrying out in the Russian Federation a uniform state policy; acceptance of federal laws and other normative legal certificates of the Russian Federation; development and realization of federal target and scientific and technical programs of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products; the state normalization in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products; the organization and realization of the state registration of foodstuff, materials and products; the organization and carrying out of obligatory certification of separate kinds of foodstuff, materials and products, and also the services rendered in sphere of retail trade by foodstuff and sphere of public catering, systems of quality; the organization and carrying out of the state supervision and the control; realization of the international cooperation of the Russian Federation; realization of others stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation of powers. 2. Bodies of the government of subjects of the Russian Federation have the right to participate in realization of powers of the Russian Federation in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff by means of: acceptances according to federal laws of laws and other normative legal certificates of subjects of the Russian Federation; development, statements and realizations of regional programs of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff; realization together with the authorized federal enforcement authorities of the control and supervision of quality and safety of foodstuff.

Clause 7. Has become invalid since January, 1st, 2005

Clause 8. Has become invalid since January, 1st, 2005 Chapter III. State regulation in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff

Clause 9. The state normalization in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products 1. Requirements to quality of foodstuff, materials and products, maintenance of their safety, packing, marks, industrial inspection behind quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products, to procedures of an estimation and acknowledgement of their conformity to requirements of normative documents, techniques of their tests and identification, and also to technical documentation, systems of quality are established by corresponding state standards. 2. Requirements to food value of foodstuff, safety of foodstuff, materials and products, safety of conditions of their development, statement on manufacture, manufacturing and a turn, safety of the services rendered in sphere of retail trade by foodstuff, materials and products and sphere of public catering, are established by corresponding sanitary rules and norms. Requirements to safety in the veterinary attitude of the certain foodstuff, safety in the veterinary attitude of conditions of their preparation, manufacturing and a turn are established by corresponding veterinary rules and norms. The specified requirements are based on results of scientific researches of features of a feed and a state of health of the population, revealing and an estimation of a degree of danger of properties of foodstuff, materials and products and risk of causing of harm to health of the person from use of foodstuff, materials and products, and also social and economic consequences of introduction of such requirements. 3. State standards, sanitary and veterinary rules and norms affirm federal enforcement authority on the state supervision in the field of standardization and certification, federal enforcement authority in the field of the state sanitary-andepidemiologic supervision and federal enforcement authority in the field of the state veterinary supervision according to their competence and in established by the legislation of the Russian Federation the order. 4. Requirements to quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and the products, established in the state standards, sanitary both veterinary rules and norms, are obligatory for citizens (including individual businessmen) and the legal persons who are carrying out activity on manufacturing and a turn of foodstuff, materials and products, to rendering of services in sphere of retail trade in foodstuff, materials and products and sphere of public catering.

Clause 10. The state registration of foodstuff, materials and products 1. New foodstuff, materials and the products made in the Russian Federation, foodstuff, materials and products which import is carried out for the first time on territory of the Russian Federation, are a subject to the state registration. Import foodstuff, materials and products are a subject to the state registration before their import on territory of the Russian Federation. 2. The state registration of foodstuff, materials and products includes: examination of documents which are represented by the manufacturer, the supplier of foodstuff, materials and products and their conformity to requirements of normative documents, conditions of manufacturing or deliveries of foodstuff, materials and products, and also results of their tests spent in case of need confirm; entering of foodstuff, materials and products and their manufacturers, suppliers into the State register of foodstuff, materials and the products resolved for manufacturing in territory of the Russian Federation or import on territory of the Russian Federation and realization; delivery to applicants of certificates on the state registration of foodstuff, materials and the products entitling their manufacturing in territory of the Russian Federation or import on territory of the Russian Federation and a turn. 3. The state registration of foodstuff, materials and products and conducting the State register of foodstuff, materials and the products resolved for manufacturing in territory of the Russian Federation or import on territory of the Russian Federation and a turn, are carried out by the authorized federal enforcement authority in the field of the state sanitary-and-epidemiologic supervision together with the authorized federal enforcement authority on the state veterinary supervision according to the position approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. 4. The state registration of several kinds of foodstuff, materials and products under one name, and also repeated registration of the same kinds of foodstuff, materials and products under one name or under various names is not supposed.

Clause 11. It is excluded.

Clause 12. An estimation and acknowledgement of conformity to requirements of normative documents of foodstuff, materials and products, the services rendered in sphere of retail trade by foodstuff and sphere of public catering, and also systems of quality 1. The certain kinds of foodstuff intended for realization, materials and products, the services rendered in sphere of retail trade by foodstuff and sphere of public catering, and also system of quality are a subject to an estimation and acknowledgement of conformity to requirements of normative documents. 2. Conformity of foodstuff, materials and products, which list affirms the Government of the Russian Federation, to requirements of normative documents can be confirmed by their manufacturers by means of submission of declarations on conformity by way of, established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. 3. The certain kinds of foodstuff, materials and products, the services rendered in sphere of retail trade by foodstuff and sphere of public catering, and also system of quality are a subject to an estimation and acknowledgement of conformity to requirements of normative documents by means of obligatory certification. At a choice of foodstuff, materials and products which acknowledgement of conformity to requirements of normative documents is spent by means of obligatory certification, the degree of health hazard of the person of foodstuff, materials and products, conditions of their manufacturing and a turn should be considered. The list of foodstuff, materials and the products which are a subject obligatory certification, affirms the Government of the Russian Federation. 4. The organization and carrying out of obligatory certification of the certain kinds of foodstuff, materials and products, and also the services rendered in sphere of retail trade by foodstuff and sphere of public catering, and systems of quality are carried out authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation federal enforcement authorities. 5. The order of carrying out of obligatory certification of the certain kinds of foodstuff, materials and products, the services rendered in sphere of retail trade by foodstuff and sphere of public catering, and also systems of quality is defined by the corresponding authorized federal enforcement authorities on the basis of approved by the Government of the Russian Federation of regulations about carrying out of obligatory certification of such foodstuff, materials and products, services and systems of quality. 6. Concerning foodstuff, materials and products which are not a subject to obligatory certification and acknowledgement of conformity to requirements of normative documents by means of submission of the declaration on conformity, individual businessmen and the legal persons who are carrying out activity on manufacturing and a turn of such foodstuff, materials and products, have the right to spend their voluntary certification by way of, established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. 7. In case the manufacturer of the certificated foodstuff, materials and products, the manufacturer having the certificate of conformity of system of quality, the executor of the certificated service rendered in sphere of retail trade by foodstuff or sphere of public catering, break the requirements established by normative documents, the body which has given out the corresponding certificate, is obliged to suspend the certificate for the period of elimination of the revealed infringements or, if to eliminate infringements it is not obviously possible, to cancel action of the certificate. In case such infringements are supposed by the manufacturer, submitted the declaration on conformity, it is obliged to suspend immediately manufacturing of foodstuff, materials and products, to terminate the declaration by means of its response and to inform on cancellation of the declaration in the body which has registered it, and also in bodies of the state supervision and the control over a place of the arrangement.

Clause 13. The state supervision and the control over maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff 1. The state supervision and the control over maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff are carried out by federal enforcement authority in the field of the state sanitary-and-epidemiologic supervision of the Russian Federation, federal enforcement authority in the field of the state veterinary supervision of the Russian Federation, federal enforcement authorities in the field of the state supervision and the control over quality and safety of grain and products of its processing, federal enforcement authority in the field of the state control of trade, quality of the goods and services and protection of the rights of consumers of the Russian Federation, and also the bodies which are carrying out the state supervision in the field of standardization and certification. 2. Powers of the federal enforcement authorities which are carrying out supervision and the control over maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, are established by the Government of the Russian Federation. 3. Federal enforcement authority in the field of defense, federal enforcement authority in the field of internal affairs, federal enforcement authority in the field of safety, federal enforcement authority in the field of supervision in sphere of transport carry out the control over conformity with the competence behind quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products, and also the services rendered in sphere of trade by foodstuff, materials and products and sphere of public catering. Clause 14. Monitoring of quality and safety of foodstuff, health of the population 1. With a view of definition of priority directions of a state policy in the field of maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, public health care, and also with a view of development of measures on prevention of receipt on the consumer market of poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products bodies of the state supervision and the control over enforcement authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation will organize and spend monitoring quality and safety of foodstuff, health of the population. 2. Monitoring of quality and safety of foodstuff, health of the population is spent according to the position approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. Chapter IV. The general requirements to maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff

Clause 15. Requirements to maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff 1. The foodstuff intended for realization should satisfy physiological needs of the person for necessary substances and energy, to meet requirements usually shown to foodstuff regarding and physical and chemical parameters and to correspond to the requirements established by normative documents to the admissible maintenance chemical (including radioactive), biological substances and their connections, microorganisms and other biological organisms representing health hazard present and the future generations. 2. Food value of products of a children's feed should correspond to a functional condition of an organism of the child in view of its age. Products of a children's feed should be safe for health of the child. 3. Products of a dietary feed should have the properties, allowing to use such products for a medical and preventive feed of the person according to established by federal enforcement authority in the field of public health services requirements to the organization of a dietary feed, and to be safe for health of the person. Clause 16. Requirements to maintenance of quality and safety of new foodstuff, materials and products by their development and statement on manufacture 1. By development of new foodstuff, materials and the products, new technological processes of their manufacturing, packing, storage, transportations and realizations individual businessmen and legal persons are obliged to prove requirements to quality and safety of such foodstuff, materials and products, to their packing, marks and the information on such foodstuff, materials and products, preservation of quality and safety of such foodstuff, materials and products at their manufacturing and a turn, to develop programs of industrial inspection behind quality and safety of such foodstuff, materials and products, techniques of their tests, and also to establish working lives of such foodstuff, materials and products. Working lives of foodstuff, materials and products are established concerning such foodstuff, materials and products which quality after the certain term from the moment of their manufacturing worsens which get the properties representing health hazard of the person and in this connection lose suitability for use to destination. 2. Parameters of quality and safety of new foodstuff, materials and products, terms of their validity, the requirement to their packing, marks, the information on such foodstuff, materials and products, conditions of manufacturing and a turn of such foodstuff, materials and products, programs of industrial inspection behind their quality and safety, to techniques of tests, ways of recycling or destruction of poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products should be included in technical documentation. Projects of technical documentation and pre-production models of new foodstuff, materials and products are a subject to sanitary-and-epidemiologic examination. Projects of technical documentation and pre-production models made of food raw material of an animal origin of new foodstuff besides are a subject to sanitary examination. The specified projects can be approved by the manufacturer only at reception of the conclusions of the state sanitary-and-epidemiologic service of the Russian Federation or the state veterinary service of the Russian Federation, such foodstuff certifying conformity, materials and products to requirements of sanitary or veterinary rules and norms, and also safety for health of the person. Requirements of the approved technical documentation are obligatory for individual businessmen and the legal persons who are carrying out activity on manufacturing and a turn of concrete kinds of foodstuff, materials and products. 3. New foodstuff, materials and products are supposed to manufacturing after the state registration by way of, established by clause 10 of the present Federal law.

Clause 17. Requirements to maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products at their manufacturing 1. Manufacturing of foodstuff, materials and products should be carried out according to technical documentation at observance of requirements of sanitary and veterinary rules and norms. The manufacturer of foodstuff, materials and products with a view of maintenance of their quality and safety develops and introduces systems of quality according to requirements of state standards. 2. The food raw material should be applied to manufacturing foodstuff, quality and which safety corresponds to requirements of normative documents. At manufacturing food raw material use of fodder additives, growth factors animal (including hormonal preparations), medical products, pesticides, last sanitary-and-epidemiologic examination and the state registration by way of, established is supposed by the legislation of the Russian Federation. The food raw material of an animal origin is supposed for manufacturing foodstuff only after carrying out of sanitary examination and reception by the manufacturer of the conclusion of the state veterinary service of the Russian Federation, food raw material of an animal origin certifying conformity to requirements of veterinary rules and norms. 3. At manufacturing products of a children's feed and products of a dietary feed it is not supposed to use the food raw material made with use of fodder additives, growth factors animal (including hormonal preparations), separate kinds of medical products, pesticides, and other hazardous to health person of substances and connections. 4. The food additives used at manufacturing of foodstuff, and biologically active additives should not harm a life and health of the person. At manufacturing foodstuff, and also for the use in food food additives and biologically active additives which have been last the state registration by way of, established can be used by clause 10 of the present Federal law. 5. Used during manufacturing foodstuff materials and products should correspond to requirements of normative documents to quality and safety of such materials and products. At manufacturing foodstuff application of materials and the products which have been last the state registration by way of, established is supposed by clause 10 of the present Federal law. 6. The manufacturer is obliged to check up quality and safety of each party of foodstuff, materials and products and to transfer the buyer together with foodstuff, materials and products the certificate of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products. The certificate of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products is not made out on production of public catering. 7. Conformity of foodstuff, materials and products, which lists affirm the Government of the Russian Federation, to requirements of normative documents proves to be true the certificate of conformity or the declaration on conformity and a sign on conformity. 8. The manufacturer of foodstuff, materials and products is obliged to suspend immediately manufacturing of poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products for the term of, necessary for elimination of the reasons which have caused manufacturing of such foodstuff, materials and products. In case to eliminate such reasons it is impossible, the manufacturer is obliged to stop manufacturing of poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products, to withdraw them from a turn, having provided return from buyers, consumers of such foodstuff, materials and products to organize when due hereunder carrying out of their examination, recycling or destruction. Clause 18. Requirements to maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff at their packaging, packing and marks 1. Foodstuff should be packaged and packed by such ways which allow to provide preservation of quality and safety at their storage, transportations and realizations. 2. Individual businessmen and the legal persons who are carrying out packaging and packing of foodstuff, are obliged to observe requirements of normative documents to packaging and packing of foodstuff, their marks, and also to used for packing and marks of foodstuff to materials. 3. On labels or labels or leaves-loose leaves of the packed foodstuff except for the information which structure is defined by the legislation of the Russian Federation on protection of the rights of consumers, in view of kinds of foodstuff the following information in Russian should be specified: about food value (caloric content, the maintenance of fibers, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, „}„p„{„‚„€-and microcells); about purpose and about conditions of application (concerning products of a children's feed, products of a dietary feed and biologically active additives); about ways and about conditions of manufacturing of ready dishes (concerning concentrates and semifinished items of foodstuff); about conditions of storage (concerning foodstuff for which requirements to conditions of their storage are established); about date of manufacturing and date of packing of foodstuff. Clause 19. Requirements to maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products at their storage and transportations 1. Storage and transportations of foodstuff, materials and products should be carried out in the conditions providing preservation of their quality and safety. 2. Individual businessmen and the legal persons who are carrying out storage, transportations of foodstuff, materials and products, are obliged to observe requirements of normative documents to conditions of storage and transportations of foodstuff, materials and products and to confirm observance of such requirements by corresponding records in commodity-accompanying documents. 3. Storage of foodstuff, materials and products is supposed in specially equipped premises, constructions which should correspond to requirements of building, sanitary and veterinary rules and norms. 4. For transportations of foodstuff the vehicles specially intended or specially equipped for such purposes having sanitary passports issued when due hereunder should be used. 5. In case at storage, transportations of foodstuff, materials and products the infringement led loss by foodstuff, materials and products of corresponding quality and to purchase of dangerous properties is admitted by them, individual businessmen and the legal persons who are carrying out storage, transportations of foodstuff, materials and products, are obliged to inform on it owners and addressees of foodstuff, materials and products. Such foodstuff, materials and products are not a subject to realization, go for examination according to which results they are utilized or destroyed. Clause 20. Requirements to maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products at their realization 1. At realization of foodstuff, materials and products citizens (including individual businessmen) and legal persons are obliged to observe requirements of normative documents. 2. In retail trade sale of not packaged and unpacked foodstuff, except for the certain kinds of foodstuff which list is established by federal enforcement authority in the field of trade in coordination with the authorized federal enforcement authority on the state sanitary-and-epidemiologic supervision is not supposed. 3. Realization in the food markets of foodstuff of nonindustrial manufacturing is supposed only after carrying out of sanitary examination and reception by sellers of the conclusions of the state veterinary service of the Russian Federation, such foodstuff certifying conformity to requirements of veterinary rules and norms. 4. In case at realization of foodstuff, materials and products the infringement led loss by foodstuff, materials and products of corresponding quality and to purchase of dangerous properties is admitted by them, citizens (including individual businessmen) and the legal persons realizing foodstuff, materials and products, are obliged to remove such foodstuff, materials and products from realization to provide their response from consumers, to direct poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products for examination, to organize their recycling or destruction. Clause 21. Requirements to maintenance of quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products which import is carried out on territory of the Russian Federation 1. Quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products, which import is carried out on territory of the Russian Federation, should correspond to requirements of normative documents. 2. Obligations of manufacturers, software suppliers to observance of requirements of normative documents concerning foodstuff, materials and products which import is carried out on territory of the Russian Federation, are essential treaty provisions of their delivery. 3. Import on territory of the Russian Federation of foodstuff, materials and the products, not last state the registration by way of, established in clause 10 of the present Federal law, and also foodstuff, materials and the products which are not having documents, certifying conformity of quality and safety of such foodstuff, materials and products Is forbidden to requirements of normative documents. 4. In check points through Frontier of the Russian Federation and items of customs registration of foodstuff, materials and products which import is carried out on territory of the Russian Federation, the officials who are carrying out the state sanitary-and-epidemiologic supervision, the state veterinary supervision and the state fytosanitory control, over conformity with the competence spend examination of such foodstuff, materials and products, their check commoditycovering notes documents and make a decision on an opportunity of registration of import of such foodstuff, materials and products on territory of the Russian Federation. In case foodstuff, materials and products which import is carried out on territory of the Russian Federation, cause in the officials who are carrying out the state sanitary-and-epidemiologic supervision, the state veterinary supervision and the state fytosanitory control, the proved doubts in safety of such foodstuff, materials and the products, the specified persons make a decision on time stay of registration of import on territory of the Russian Federation of such foodstuff, materials and products. In case foodstuff, materials and products which import is carried out on territory of the Russian Federation, admit dangerous, the officials who are carrying out the state sanitary-and-epidemiologic supervision, the state veterinary supervision and the state fytosanitory control, forbid import of such foodstuff, materials and products on territory of the Russian Federation and do a mark in them commodity-covering notes documents that such foodstuff, materials and products are hazardous to health of the person and realizations are not a subject. The owner of dangerous foodstuff, materials and products is obliged to take out within ten days them for limits of territory of the Russian Federation. In case dangerous foodstuff, materials and products in established term are not taken out by the paragraph of the fourth present item for limits of territory of the Russian Federation, they will be confiscated according to the legislation of the Russian Federation, go for examination according to which results are utilized or destroyed. Clause 22. Requirements to the organization and carrying out of industrial inspection behind quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products 1. Individual businessmen and the legal persons who are carrying out activity on manufacturing and a turn of foodstuff, materials and products, are obliged to organize and spend industrial inspection behind their quality and safety, observance of requirements normative and technical documentation to conditions of manufacturing and a turn of foodstuff, materials and products. 2. Industrial inspection behind quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products is spent according to the program of industrial inspection which is developed by the individual businessman or the legal person on the basis of state standards and technical documentation. The specified program defines the procedure of industrial inspection behind quality and safety of foodstuff, materials and products, techniques of such control and a technique of check of conditions of their manufacturing and a turn. Clause 23. Requirements to the workers who are carrying out activity on manufacturing and a turn of foodstuff 1. The workers borrowed on works who are connected with manufacturing and a turn of foodstuff, rendering of services in sphere of retail trade in foodstuff, materials and products and sphere of public catering and at which performance direct contacts of workers to foodstuff, materials and products are carried out, pass obligatory preliminary at receipt for work and periodic medical surveys, and also hygienic training according to the legislation of the Russian Federation. 2. Sick of infectious diseases, persons with suspicion on such diseases, the persons contacted to sick infectious diseases, the persons, being carriers of activators of infectious diseases which can represent danger of distribution of such diseases in connection with features of manufacturing and a turn of foodstuff, materials and products, and also the workers who have been not last of hygienic training, are not supposed to works at which performance direct contacts of workers to foodstuff, materials and products are carried out. Clause 24. Requirements to withdrawal from a turn of poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products 1. Poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products are a subject to withdrawal from a turn. The owner poor-quality and (or) dangerous foodstuff, materials and products is obliged to withdraw them from a turn independently or on the basis of the instruction of bodies of the state supervision and the control. 2. In case the owner poor-quality and (or) dangerous foodstuff, materials and products has not arranged on their withdrawal from a turn, such foodstuff, materials and products will be confiscated by way of, established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. Clause 25. Requirements to carrying out of examination, to recycling or destruction of poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and the products withdrawn from a turn 1. Poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and the products withdrawn from a turn, are a subject to corresponding examination spent by bodies of the state supervision and the control over conformity with the competence, with a view of definition of an opportunity of recycling or destruction of such foodstuff, materials and products. Foodstuff, materials and products which owner cannot confirm their origin which have obvious attributes of a poor quality and represent in this connection direct threat of a life and to health of the person, recyclings or to destruction without carrying out of examination are a subject. Before recycling or destructions of such foodstuff, materials and products their owner at presence of the representative of body of the state supervision and the control is obliged to change properties of such foodstuff, materials and products in any accessible and reliable way excluding an opportunity of their further use to destination. 2. Poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products for the term of, necessary for carrying out of their examination, recycling or destruction, go on time storage which conditions of realization exclude an opportunity of access to such foodstuff, to materials and products. A poor-quality on time storage poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products are a subject to the strict account. The responsibility for safety of such foodstuff, materials and products is born with their owner. 3. On the basis of results of examination of poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products the corresponding body of the state supervision and the control accepts the decision about their recycling or destruction. The owner poor-quality and (or) dangerous foodstuff, materials and products carries out a choice of ways and conditions of their recycling or destruction according to requirements normative or technical documentation and coordinates with body of the state supervision and the control, born the decision about recycling or destruction of such foodstuff, materials and products, ways and conditions of their recycling or destruction. The opportunity of use poor-quality and (or) dangerous foodstuff as a forage of animals is coordinated with the state veterinary service of the Russian Federation. 4. Charges on examination, storage, transportations, recycling or destruction of poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products are paid by their owner. 5. The owner of poor-quality and dangerous foodstuff, materials and products is obliged to present to body of the state supervision and the control, born the decision about their recycling or destruction, the document or its copy certified when due hereunder, recyclings confirming the fact or destructions of such foodstuff, materials and products. 6. Bodies of the state supervision and the control, born the decision about recycling or destruction poor-quality and (or) dangerous foodstuff, materials and products, are obliged to carry out the control over their recycling or destruction in connection with danger of occurrence and distribution of diseases and poisonings of people and animals, and also pollution of a surrounding environment. Chapter V. The responsibility for infringement of the present Federal law

Clause 26. Has become invalid since July, 1st, 2002

Clause 27. The Criminal liability for infringement of the present Federal law The infringement of the present Federal law led a case of occurrence of disease, poisoning or death of the person, come as a result of the use poor-quality and (or) dangerous foodstuff, entails the criminal liability according to the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Clause 28. 1. Individual businessmen and the legal persons who are carrying out activity on a turn of foodstuff, materials and products, and also rendering of services in sphere of public catering, for infringement of the present Federal law bear the responsibility according to the civil legislation. 2. The harm, caused lives, to health or property of the citizen or property of the legal person owing to lacks of foodstuff, materials and products, and also lacks of the services rendered in sphere of public catering, regarding their quality and safety, is a subject to compensation according to the civil legislation.

Clause 29. The responsibility of officials of bodies of the state supervision and the control Officials of bodies of the state supervision and the control over inadequate execution of the duties, and also over concealment of the facts creating threat of a life and health of the person, bear the responsibility by way of, established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. Chapter VI. Final provisions

Clause 30. Introduction in action of the present Federal law 1. The present Federal law is put into operation from the date of its official publication, except for positions of item 1 of clause 10 of the present Federal law which are put into operation from the date of official publication approved by the Government of the Russian Federation of corresponding normative legal certificates. 2. Positions of clauses 2 - 8, clauses 9 (except for the paragraph of second item 2), clauses 12 (except for the positions, concerning estimations and acknowledgement of conformity to requirements of normative documents of the services rendered in sphere of retail trade and sphere of public catering), clauses 13, clauses 16, items 1, 2, 5 - 8 clauses 17, items 1 and 2 clauses 18, items 1 - 3 and 5 clauses 19, items 1 and 4 clauses 20, clauses 21 - 28 present Federal laws extend also on perfumery and cosmetic production, means and products for hygiene of an oral cavity, tobacco products. Positions of clause 10 of the present Federal law extend also on cosmetic production, means and products for hygiene of an oral cavity. 3. To suggest the President of the Russian Federation to bring the normative legal certificates into accord with the present Federal law. 4. To charge to the Government of the Russian Federation to develop the normative legal certificates stipulated by the present Federal law, and to bring the normative legal certificates into accord with the present Federal law.

Acting the President of the Russian Federation Century of Century Putin Moscow, the Kremlin On January, 2nd, 2000