FUTURE OF FOOD HYGIENE

The publication has given a retrospection on the tasks of food hygiene drawn up earlier, among them on the establishment of integrated meat inspection in the meat inspection (the role of veterinarians starts on tile farm and lasts up to the desk of consumer), as well as on the im portance of residue investigations and certificates of origin and heal th issued by the veterinarians. The new and modern demands expressing the efforts made for the euro-harmonization have been formulated and w ill be published soon in the regulations forming the enacting clauses of the new animal health law. That is related both to tile meat inspec tion and broader activities of food hygienic service (assortment and q uantity of imported food increased and new proprietorships have develo ped). Food hygiene needs a central professional leading institution, t ile nowadays also acting National Food Control Institute, and a correc tly determined laboratory background capacity also in the future. High priority task are in die realization and official control of technolo gical hygiene stated in the HACCP system in the future. Gradual and po stgradual training should be reformed. Meat and meat products need a m ore strict control in the market and commercial marketing. In the futu re, it should be established a certain collaboration, even a rational division of tasks with the human medical institutions and a close coll aboration with the organs of consumers' protection.