Digital technologies for monitoring food quality

Relevance . Food quality is a pledge of society’s health and longevity, as it most directly affects the physiological potential of humanity and its future generations. Poor product quality not only leads to falling sales in the future, but also damages business reputation and financial well-being in the long run. The state has already actively engaged in the process of quality control of products, but there remain challenges for businesses to upgrade and adapt their own production to innovative standards. Purpose . The main objective of this study was the need to study and control the quality of food production in the context of the emergence of a data economy. Objectives . The article sets and consistently solves the following tasks: to evaluate the system of state monitoring of control of public and organized catering of the population of different age and social groups, to identify the main problems of declining quality of food production in the industrial sector, to determine the importance of innovative digital technologies for labeling and quality control of food products; to develop recommendations for improving the digital monitoring system. Methodology . The work used general scientific methods of generalization, analysis of information resources, systematization, analogy and comparison. Results . High-quality nutrition of the population is impossible without the production of sufficient and balanced quantities of food products in accordance with physiological norms of human consumption. Reducing the turnover of counterfeit products on the food market and increasing the responsibility of producers and sellers is possible under the conditions of using digital tracking methods. Conclusions . Nutrition of the population acts as an important direction of balanced development of labor resources, so the problem of low-quality food products found reflection in the emergence of digital monitoring methods of product turnover traceability. The development and implementation of digital product traceability tools will not only bring credibility to product turnover, but also enhance the accountability of manufacturers and suppliers of a given product to end users.