[Sanitary and epidemiological examination of foods under carrying sanitary and epidemiological surveillance on the customer border and at in the territory of the Customers Union].

The article concerns peculiarities of sanitary and epidemiological and hygienic examination of foods under carrying of sanitary-epidemiologic surveillance on the customer border and of the custom territory of the Customers Union of the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan and Byelorussia.

[Consumption of iodinated salt by the Moscow population to prevent iodine deficiency states].

Retrospective analysis of the prevalence of iodine-deficiency states among the adult population in the Moscow Central Administrative District in 2001 to 2004 revealed an upward trend in the incidence of the major nosological entities of diffuse and multinodular goiter. The age distribution of iodine-deficiency diseases in the district is characteristic of the whole city. The prevalence of endocrine diseases, among which thyroid pathology is about 60%, among the adolescents of the district is greater than the background values (in Moscow).

[Methodical approaches to studies of the efficiency and quality of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance].

Current methodology and organization of evaluations of the efficiency of specialists and subdivisions of sanitary epidemiological institutions of the first level of managing are presented. The authors propose a method for quantitative evaluation of the efficiency for comparison of compatible and equivalent values. Definitions essential for evaluation of the efficiency the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance are formulated.

[Laboratory support of the State Sanitary and Epidemiologic Service under the new socioeconomic conditions].

Structural and functional changes in the system of laboratory provision of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service under modern economic conditions had a positive impact on the number and quality of laboratory studies. The concept of rearrangement of laboratory service for the period of up to the year 2000 and its staff and material provision improved the quality of laboratory work and eventually the quality of sanitary epidemiological surveillance at the very first stages of its realization.

[Provision of information on the activities of the State Sanitary-Epidemiologic Service].

Use of a multi-level automated information system has been scientifically validated for the State Sanitary Epidemic Surveillance Service of the Russian Federation in recent years. Such a system ensures rapid collection, processing, and analysis of information on the sanitary and epidemic status of the population, activities of sanitary and epidemiological institutions, prediction and simulation of sanitary epidemic situations, management of the service. It helped automate the routine processes of professional, financial, and managing activities of the service institutions.