Retail chains and restaurants are waiting for mass inspections by Rospotrebnadzor

Rospotrebnadzor plans to return the opportunity to go for inspections without prior approval from prosecutors. A source in the State Duma told Izvestia about this. According to him, since 2020, the service cannot promptly travel to the facility as part of an unscheduled inspection, since this requires the approval of prosecutors. Moreover, in practice it is not so easy to do this: only in 30% of cases the prosecutor's office satisfies the requirements of sanitary doctors.

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The Prosecutor General's Office will conduct inspections of companies that used unacceptable components.

"Negotiations on this issue began on the government's site, now the parties are using a more neutral zone — on the basis of the State Duma. The new procedure, if agreed upon by all interested parties, will require amendments to Article 66 of the Law on State Control (248-FZ)," the editorial source said.

In practice, the work of Rospotrebnadzor will look like this: the service will not notify the company it is going to inspect, but will inform the prosecutors of its intention at the same time as the start of supervision, and not beforehand, as it is now. The reason may be information from the Honest Mark labeling system, as well as "information about an immediate threat of harm (damage) to legally protected values" (this may be a complaint from a consumer, a public figure, or a publication in the media). Moreover, the verification can begin within a day after the discovery of this information.

If Rospotrebnadzor gets such independence, the massive unscheduled control will primarily affect catering establishments, where there are many problems and public news against this background, as well as retail chains and light industry, the source told Izvestia.

Sergei Lisovsky, a United Russia deputy and deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for the Protection of Competition, called the rational initiative to return Rospotrebnadzor to its powers, which were limited during the pandemic.

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Quality control: retail chains and restaurants are waiting for mass inspections