On the expansion of the concept of ecogenic harm to health caused by the use of agricultural products that do not meet safety requirements

In the modern world, security issues in the broadest sense take on special significance. Problems related to ensuring food and environmental security play an important role. The production of quality and safe agricultural products and ensuring their availability for the population serve the national interests of the Russian Federation. Consuming plant products grown on pesticide- and agrochemical-contaminated lands, as well as animal products made from agricultural raw materials that do not meet safety requirements (for example, meat from infected animals), can cause serious harm to human health. The goal of the research is to identify the relationship between the concepts of "environmental harm" and "ecogenic harm," as well as the significance and applicability of the latter for ensuring the safety of agricultural products of animal origin. The article employs general scientific and specialized methods (analysis, generalization, formal-legal, comparative-legal, etc.) to reveal doctrinal approaches of scholars to the issues of ensuring the safety of agricultural products, defining ecogenic harm, and to formulate proposals for clarifying this concept. The article establishes that the livestock sector deals with living organisms. And although formally and legally agricultural animals do not belong to the animal world but are considered "property" under civil law, they do not cease to be part of nature, a unique "natural resource," a component of the natural environment, much like how land, classified as real estate, remains a natural object and natural resource. The scientific novelty of the article lies in justifying the feasibility of expanding the concept of "ecogenic harm," which has formed in the theory of environmental law, by relating to it not only harm to health caused by "negative impacts of the environment," as is commonly accepted now, but also harm that arises as a result of committing ecological and related "ecologized" violations (veterinary, sanitary-epidemiological, etc.), which better corresponds to the norm of Article 42 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.