THE CURRENT STATE OF FORENSIC COMMODITY AND FORENSIC VETERINARY EXAMINATION OF FOOD PRODUCTS

Abstract

The article highlights aspects of the current state of forensic and veterinary examination of food products. Forensic commodity expertise is a study by an expert commodity expert or veterinary medicine specialist of any issues, the solution of which requires the application of special knowledge in this field. During the forensic veterinary examination, the consumer properties of goods are evaluated according to organoleptic, physico-chemical and other quality indicators, safety indicators (microbiological, toxicological, mycological, radiological), as well as their quantitative characteristics, which is carried out by experts by conducting tests (measurements) , studying the information on the marking and researching the corresponding product accompanying documents. The active development of trade in food products, their presence in foreign economic transactions, in certain cases necessitate the appointment of forensic examinations. The subject of forensic examination of food products is factual data in the case, which are established by a forensic expert on the basis of special knowledge, as a result of their research, their relations (connections) of products with the phenomena of the surrounding reality (various influences) and functionally related processes (packaging, transportation, storage), carried out within the limits of current legal norms, with the aim of obtaining an evidentiary base for investigation and court. The subject of examination of food products makes it possible to correctly define the range of tasks and choose an expert or experts.