New rules for ready-made food producers may be introduced in Russia

New sanitary and epidemiological rules and regulations, SanPiN 2.3/2.4-26, which establish uniform requirements for the production of packaged ready-made food for retail trade, may be introduced in Russia. The document has been published on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

What is proposed:

— introduce HACCP principles,
— launch a traceability system,
— tighten requirements for raw materials,
— restrict the production of baby food (the production of ready-made food for children under 3 years of age is strictly prohibited),
— justify shelf life,
— ban production in residential buildings,
— strengthen personnel oversight (mandatory vaccination is being introduced, along with daily medical examinations of workers for purulent skin diseases and infectious diseases),
— ensure physical safety (technological lines must be equipped with metal detectors or X-ray flaw detectors to prevent foreign objects from entering the products),
— regulate delivery.

The document is at the stage of public discussion of the draft text.