The current state of legislative regulation in respect to specialised food

The paper presents the analysis of legislative regulation and methodological documents in regard to the regulation of specialised food distribution in the Russian Federation. The modern terminology approved within regulatory documents in respect to specialised food is considered. The main categories of food that can be referred to specialised are described. The systematization of standards, formed on the basis of the conducted information search among the official databases of state standards (Catalogue of State Standards of the Russian Federation) is given. The database relevance: 17.09.2018, amount: 42,622 documents. The following keywords were used in the search: “specialised”, “of specialised”, “medical”, “preventive”, “dietary”, etc. The paper presents the analysis of the compiled list according to some standard types: in relation to products, control methods, and processes. The analysis results show the unformed state and certain inconsistency of the regulatory framework in respect to specialised food. The main problems on specialised food production and realisation are identified. The ideas for improvement of the national regulation in the sphere of specialised food are described. It is demonstrated that assessment and food efficiency confirmation should play a key role in the technology of manufacturing specialised food, including healthy and diet food. To refine the regulatory framework, the issues of changing the techniques for determining biologically active food supplements, assessing their claimed efficiency, and setting or amending their consumption norms are highlighted. The authors consider the basic ways of improving the national regulation in relation to production, circulation and consumption of specialised food, specified in the Strategy of Food Quality Improvement in the Russian Federation until 2030.