Approved by Decision of the Customs Union Commission No. 299
dated 28 May, 2010
Uniform sanitary and epidemiological and hygienic requirements for products subject to sanitary and epidemiological supervision
control
as amended by Decisions of the Customs Union Commission N 341 of 17.08.2010, N 456 of 18.11.2010, No 622 of 7 April 2011 and N 889 of
09.12.2011
Chapter II Part 1. Requirements for safety and nutrition value of food products
1. Uniform sanitary and epidemiological and hygienic requirements for
safety and nutrition value of food products 1.1. Area of application
1. Sanitary and epidemiological and hygienic safety requirements
hereinafter referred to as “Uniform sanitary requirements” shall be applied to food products according to products classification based on Customs Union
Uniform FEACN codes hereinafter referred to as CU FEACN.
2. This part of Uniform sanitary requirements is developed based on the
legislation of the Customs Union states-members, as well as the international documents in the field of food products safety.
1.2. Terms and Definitions
3. This part of Uniform sanitary requirements uses the following terms and
definitions for the purposes of this document: 1
“food products” – natural and processed type food products taken by a man as a food including food for children, clinical nutrition food and other
specialized foodstuffs, drinking water packed up in containers bottled drinking water, alcoholic products including beer, non-alcoholic drinks, chewing-gum, as
well as food raw materials, food additives and biologically active additives. Requirements for water packed up in containers bottled drinking water are
determined in other parts of the uniform sanitary requirements;
2 “biologically active additives to food hereinafter referred to as
“BAAs”” are the products containing nutrient and or biologically active
substances their concentrates of natural or artificial origin identical to the natural, as well as prebiotic components and probiotic microorganisms, which are
meant to be taken at the same time with food for optimisation of human ration and which are not the only source of food or dietary nutrition;
3 “food additive” is any substance or mix of substances not consumed by
human directly as a food and meant to be included in food product when produced for technological purposes function, including giving it a certain organoleptic
properties and or preservation of quality and safety for determined period of use, which can perform several technological functions;
4 “specialized food products” are foodstuffs with the set chemical
composition for various categories of population and or different physiological states.
5 “adequate consumption level” is the daily consumption level of nutrient
and biologically active substances, established on the basis of calculated and observed quantities or levels of consumption of, nutrient and biologically active
substances by a group groups of almost healthy people»;
6 “maximum permissible consumption level” is the highest daily
consumption level of nutrient and biologically active substances, which does not present danger of development of adverse impact on health state indicators of
almost all persons of the general population older than 18 years»;
7 “norms of physiological need” is an averaged amount of the necessary
intake of nutrient and biologically active substances, which ensure the optimal realization of physiological and biochemical processes inherent to human
genotype».
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“early-aged children” are children aged from 0 months to 3 years».
4. Terms not specially determined in this part are used in meanings
established by the national legislation of the Customs Union states-members, as well as the international agreements concluded within the framework of Customs
Union and Eurasian economical community.
1.3. General provisions
