Sanitary audits in public catering enterprises activities as a self-examination tool

State policy in the field of quality and safety allows for the possibility of product deviations from the requirements of regulatory documents. Risks in the field of quality and safety of food products in general and public catering services in particular were discussed for the first time after the adoption of the Federal Law "On Technical Regulation" dated December 27, 2002 N 184. In this law risk is considered as the probability of causing harm to the life or health of cit izens, the property of individuals or legal entities, state or municipal property, the environment, the life or health of animals and plants, taking into account the severity of this harm. Subsequently, due to the requirements of the tech nical regulation TR CU 021/2011 "On the safety of food products" and the updating of the Food Safety Doctrine, risks began to be considered comprehensively and systematically, starting with economic and ending with technological risks. One of the promising areas of implementation of preventive measures that can be independently carried out by economic entities is self-examination. According to the Federal Law "On state control (supervision) and municipal control in the Russian Federation", self-examination is understood as an independent assessment of compliance with mandatory requirements. This form of preventive measures is not sufficiently implemented within the framework of the responsibility of Rospotrebnadzor. Certain conditions for its implementation must be met, which are stipulated by the regulatory document: 1) self-examination is carried out in an automated mode; 2) controlled persons who have received a high assessment of their compliance with mandatory requirements; 3) the supervisory authority has the right to accept a declaration of conformity based on the results of self-examination.