[Problems of improving the assessment of health risk for assurance of the sanitary and epidemiological well-being].

There are considered the current problems of improving population health risk assessment for assurance of the sanitary and epidemiological well-being. Their solution permit to improve the risk assessment methodology in Russia and overcome unnecessary barriers in the way of a practical application of the criteria of acceptable risk and damage to health to support management decisions.

[To the 90th anniversary of State Sanitary Epidemiologic Service Formation in Russian Federation].

State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Training of the Ministry of Health Care and Social Development Foundation of Russian Sanitary Epidemiologic Service dates back to September, 15, 1922, when a Decree on Sanitary Institutions of the Republic was signed. Afterwards the institutions of Sanitary Epidemiologic Service were improved: foundation of State Sanitary Inspectorate (1933-1951), approval of new concept of the Service and intensification of State Sanitary Inspectorate (1951-1991), foundation of State Sanitary Epidemiologic Service, centralization of management and financing of the Service, formation of Sanitary Epidemiologic Legislation (1991-2004), further restructurization of Sanitary Epidemiologic Service in accordance with administrative changes in Russia (2004 until now).

[Disturbances of bone tissue metabolism in elderly and senile patients after stomach resection].

The authors have examined 104 elderly patients after one of operations on the stomach. The mineral metabolism, biochemical and X-ray findings were investigated. Osteoporosis was observed more often in patients after Billroth-II resection of the stomach, rarer after Billroth-I operation and more rarely in patients after pylorus-saving resection of the stomach.

[Hygienic characteristics of foodstuffs containing genetically modified components].

The paper analyzes the results of the investigations of raw foods, foodstuffs for genetically modified components, conducted by the state sanitary and epidemiological service of the Russian Federation during its current sanitary inspection. The presented materials cover 2003-2004. The findings suggest that there is a great deal of foods containing genetically modified sources on the market and show the priority groups of foodstuffs and the distribution of these foods on the territory of the Russian Federation.