Production Quality Control. 2024, May

Yu.V. Savvina, S.А. Kolesnikov

Legislation 2024: the near future of food industry

The article discusses the key changes in food legislation that come into force in 2024: Decisions of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 70, 84, 98, 149, 146 concerning the Customs Union Technical Regulations 021, 033, 024, 029, 034, and the Eurasian Economic Union Technical Regulations 040, 047, 051, as well as amendments to Russian federal laws, including the laws on veterinary medicine and agriculture. Special attention is paid to requirements for the control of veterinary drug residues that may be contained in food products of animal origin.

KEYWORDS: legislation, technical regulations, Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission, federal law, transitional provisions, conformity assessment, veterinary medicinal products, labeling, agriculture

D.М. Gogotishvili, V.А. Soldatov

Innovative and high-tech products conformity assessment

The article discusses the development of a system for assessing (verifying) the conformity of products recognized as innovative. The schemes used in the mandatory conformity assessment are described. A brief overview of relevant tools applied to innovative products is provided. The need to develop methodologies and methods for assessing product compliance with the criteria of innovation is underlined.

KEYWORDS: innovative products, conformity assessment, certification, technical regulation, testing

Т.V. Tulyakova, А.E. Dzhabakova, К.I. Koptelov, К.S. Kuznetsova, D.V. Kudinov

Problems of ensuring food systems stability and ways to eliminate them

Ensuring the stability of food systems, and therefore guarantee of food availability, is the primary task of any state. There are two ways to solve this problem: enhancing food production or increasing the amount of foodstuff available to population by reducing its losses. The second solution is provided by Zero Waste concept, which is popular in the world. To implement it in the Russian food industry, the authors developed a sequence of steps (algorithm) that need to be done for increasing food systems stability.

KEYWORDS: production losses, food waste, secondary products, Zero Waste concept, SWOT analysis, waste recycling

E.R. Lazarenko, O.A. Minaeva, S.I. Anevsky, P.Yu. Pushkin, T.T. Minh

Measuring instruments quality control in assessing the effectiveness of exposure to UV radiation

The article describes methods and means of measurements to ensure accuracy and reliability of UV radiation characteristics control when performing applied measurement tasks, including assessment of the effectiveness and danger of exposure to germicidal radiation sources. To qualitatively improve the metrological support of measurements, it is necessary to identify the main risks in solving urgent radiometry problems and eliminate sources of errors.

KEYWORDS: UV radiation, measuring instruments, spectral and angular correction, sensitivity, germicidal radiation sources, quality improvement

М.А. Vasina, D.А. Chidalev, А.А. Spiridonova

Prospects of blockchain technology development in metrology

The metrology field digitalization is the application of the latest digital technologies and measuring instruments as well as the development and implementation of new methods and algorithms for data processing. The blockchain technology implementation can significantly impact the reliability of measurement ensuring. The purpose of this study is to summarize information about existing Russian and foreign blockchain development projects in the metrology field. The use of blockchain technology in various fields in Russia are reviewed. The analysis of the use of blockchain technology in the metrological assurance in Japan, Brazil and Germany is presented. The overview of approaches to blockchain technology implementation for ensuring the uniformity of measurements and product quality control is provided.

KEYWORDS: data security, blockchain, quality control, metrological assurance, distributed registry, digitalization.

A.V. Smirnov, A.E. Brom

Inverse problem of modeling product quality parameters in additive manufacturing

Issues of ensuring the quality of engineering industry products are becoming especially relevant in conditions of increasing competition. The enterprises use various approaches to modeling product quality parameters. The first one is the direct task of quality parameters modeling, and it is based on compliance with technical specifications, industry quality standards and a product’s design documentation. The second one presupposes ensuring compliance with real operating processes (conditions) and is called the “inverse modeling problem”. These approaches are discussed using the example of additive manufacturing.

KEYWORDS: quality, quality parameters, direct modeling problem, inverse modeling problem, additive manufacturing, operation

V.B. Khabarov, L.I. Panina

An innovative gas chromatography method for determining diapers’ sanitary and chemical characteristics. Part 2

The final part of the article is devoted to the preparation of regulatory documents on the rules and methods of research (testing) and measurements that ensure compliance with the requirements of the TR CU 007/2011 “On the safety of products intended for children and adolescents”. The author offers several practical steps to assess sanitary and chemical characteristics of diapers using gas chromatography and headspace analysis.

KEYWORDS: technical regulations, standards, volatile chemicals, sanitary and chemical characteristics, gas chromatography, headspace analysis