Key challenges in the dietary intake structure and cutting edge technologies for optimizing nutrition to protect the health of the Russian population
AbstractThis article presents an analysis of some of the results of the work of the Federal Research Center for Nutrition and Biotechnology (Center) in recent years, highlighting the most important, promising areas of Nutrition Science and Food Hygiene that need further development.
The priority area of Center functioning is scientific support for the implementation of the Doctrine of Food Security of the Russian Federation (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated January 21, 2020 No. 20), Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated July 21, 2020 No. 474 «On the national development goals of the Russian Federation for the period until 2030 «in terms of ensuring an increase in life expectancy and improving the life quality of the population, the Strategy for Improving the Quality of Food Products in the Russian Federation until 2030 (Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated June 29, 2016 No. 1364-r).
The Center coordinates all research on medical nutrition problems in the Russian Federation within the framework of the work of the Problem Commission on Nutrition Hygiene of the Scientific Council of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare, the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Medical Nutrition Problems, the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Comprehensive Scientific Program «Priority Research in the Field of Nutrition of the Population», Profile Commission on Dietetics of the Expert Council in the Field of Health of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russian Federation, ensuring the implementation of their results with the participation of members of the Consortium “Healthcare, Nutrition, Demography”.
The most important area of the Center’s work is scientific and expert support in the field of international and national technical regulation of the production and turnover of foods and raw materials, in particular, the work of the Russian national contact point of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (established by FAO and WHO), as well as the work of the Russian side in the Eurasian Economic Commission regarding the preparation of proposals for technical regulations of the Customs Union in the field of food safety, evaluation of draft technical regulations and amendments and additions to them.
Keywords:nutrition and health; nutritional epidemiology; digital nutrition science; human microbiome; chemical and biological safety of food; new food sources; foods for special dietary uses; educational programs on healthcare
Funding. The research was carried out using subsidies for the implementation of a state task (FGMF-2022-0001).
Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Contribution. Concept – Tutelyan V.A.; collection and analysis of materials – all authors; editing – Nikityuk D.B.; approval of the final version of the article, responsibility for the integrity of all parts of the article – all authors.
Acknowledgement. The authors express their deep gratitude to the personnel of the Federal Research Center for Nutrition and Biotechnology and Food Safety: Smirnova E.A., Vrzhesinskaya O.A., Sheveleva S.A., Tyshko N.V., Zhilinskaya N.V., Pogozheva A.V., Kochetkova A.A., Tarmaeva I.Yu., Sedova I.B., Aksenov I.V., Efimochkina N.R. for constructive discussion of the presented results, directions for the development of research on core issues of Nutrition Science, and assistance in preparing this article.
For citation: Tutelyan V.A., Nikityuk D.B. Key challenges in the dietary intake structure and cutting edge technologies for optimizing nutrition to protect the health of the Russian рopulation. Voprosy pitaniia [Problems of Nutrition]. 2024; 93 (1): 6–21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33029/0042-8833-2024-93-1-6-21 (in Russian)