Changes in Ukrainian legislation in the field of food safety

Abstract

Ukraine is a legal country of the European community. The status of EU member imposes additional obligations on the state to harmonize the legislative framework with EU requirements. The food safety also notes significant changes that will allow in the future to provide consumers with safe food and increase export volumes. The safety system based on HACCP principles is now mandatory for every market operator. However, this was just the first step. Further Ukranian legislation harmonization will allow to improve traceability processes. The Ukrainian Laws adoption of labeling, requirements for packaging materials and containers, marks for food of animal origin will allow food onitoring along the entire production chain with the aim of eliminating likely emerging threats. The concretization of market operator legal status and his legal responsibility for low-quality food has also been introduced by recent changes to a number of Ukrainian Laws. Every specialist in the food industry must monitor changes in Ukrainian legislation regarding the safety of food in order to adapt production. Therefore, legislative changes in the food safety are due to the need to fulfill the requirements of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU and the current state of war in the country. The changes made in 2022 showed that traceability standards were more carefully regulated due to the introduction of labels for animal origin food and labeling requirements. In addition, the law adoption on materials and objects come into contact with food and will reduce the risk of danger regarding the harmful substances migration into food.Constant updating of the food assortment and packaging materials and containers for them, as well as methods of researching their quality and safety, will lead to constant changes in food legislation.