You are what you eat, and for Russians it's bread, potatoes and sugarBy Vestnik KavkazaTomorrow the world is celebrating Consumer Rights Day under the slogan "Focusing on consumers' rights to healthy food."Unhealthy diets cause four out of the ten leading causes of death worldwide: extra weight, high blood pressure, high blood glucose and high cholesterol. Increased disease risk is associated with obesity, diabetes, heart diseases and some types of cancers and leads to a healthcare crisis. Poor nutrition has a worse effect on health if paired with smoking. The situation is complicated by the availability of unhealthy foods and by the marketing campaigns of major international food companies.The head of Rospotrebnadzor, the chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Anna Popova said that 30% of all human diseases, infectious and non-infectious, are linked to the food factor. Popova believes that a person's right to safe and healthy food can be provided by a food security doctrine, Principles of State Policy in the field of healthy nutrition until 2020 and a number of laws, by-laws and departmental regulations.According to the head of Rospotrebnadzor, over the past 20 years there have been positive changes in Russia's nutrition sphere: "The annual average rate per person of fish consumption has increased by 90% since 1992, of fruits and berries by 50%, of meat by 40%, of vegetables up to 30%. And today, about 40% of baby food of industrial production is enriched with biologically valuable components. And the country has a very well-organized and strict system of monitoring the quality of food safety, including risk-based assessments and modern methods of analysis."However, Popova admitted that "in terms of consumption of milk, dairy products, vegetables, fish, fruit and vegetables, we have not reached the established physiological norms of consumption. We consume more bread than our physiological norm needs, more potatoes, more sugar, it is an average rate in the Russian Federation. And unfortunately, we don’t consume enough fruits, berries and vegetables." "In accordance with the law of the Russian Federation for the Protection of Consumer Rights, the seller must deliver a product to the customer, the quality of which corresponds to the contract or the relevant customary requirements, and fitting for the purposes for which products of that kind are normally used, or mandatory requirements. That means that the person, or the link, which is the seller, who is responsible for the quality and safety of the sold or realized products. But this is just one link in the chain. The number of links in the chain from the grown product to the product's consumption is sufficiently large. And in order to ensure control, the Federal Service annually conducts at least two million tests of samples," Popova said.
By Vestnik Kavkaza
Tomorrow the world is celebrating Consumer Rights Day under the slogan "Focusing on consumers' rights to healthy food."
Unhealthy diets cause four out of the ten leading causes of death worldwide: extra weight, high blood pressure, high blood glucose and high cholesterol. Increased disease risk is associated with obesity, diabetes, heart diseases and some types of cancers and leads to a healthcare crisis. Poor nutrition has a worse effect on health if paired with smoking. The situation is complicated by the availability of unhealthy foods and by the marketing campaigns of major international food companies.
The head of Rospotrebnadzor, the chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Anna Popova said that 30% of all human diseases, infectious and non-infectious, are linked to the food factor.
Popova believes that a person's right to safe and healthy food can be provided by a food security doctrine, Principles of State Policy in the field of healthy nutrition until 2020 and a number of laws, by-laws and departmental regulations.
According to the head of Rospotrebnadzor, over the past 20 years there have been positive changes in Russia's nutrition sphere: "The annual average rate per person of fish consumption has increased by 90% since 1992, of fruits and berries by 50%, of meat by 40%, of vegetables up to 30%. And today, about 40% of baby food of industrial production is enriched with biologically valuable components. And the country has a very well-organized and strict system of monitoring the quality of food safety, including risk-based assessments and modern methods of analysis."
However, Popova admitted that "in terms of consumption of milk, dairy products, vegetables, fish, fruit and vegetables, we have not reached the established physiological norms of consumption. We consume more bread than our physiological norm needs, more potatoes, more sugar, it is an average rate in the Russian Federation. And unfortunately, we don’t consume enough fruits, berries and vegetables."
"In accordance with the law of the Russian Federation for the Protection of Consumer Rights, the seller must deliver a product to the customer, the quality of which corresponds to the contract or the relevant customary requirements, and fitting for the purposes for which products of that kind are normally used, or mandatory requirements. That means that the person, or the link, which is the seller, who is responsible for the quality and safety of the sold or realized products. But this is just one link in the chain. The number of links in the chain from the grown product to the product's consumption is sufficiently large. And in order to ensure control, the Federal Service annually conducts at least two million tests of samples," Popova said.
