, , Legal security of agricultural products as a condition public health system's development

Introduction: WHO (World Health Organization) considers food safety as one of the priorities of public health, therefore, it is important to comply with the safety parameters of agricultural products of both food and raw materials for their production. However, practice analysis shows that in order to achieve safety of agricultural products, in particular in Ukraine, it is necessary to resolve some issues associated with its legal support. The aim:of the study is to analyze the state of legal security support for agricultural products as a mandatory component of Public Health system and justify the directions of its improvement.

Materials and methods: This research is based on the analysis of the norms of international and national legislation, the state of practice with the use of general and special methods of scientific knowledge: dialectical, systemic-structural, formal-logical, logical-legal, comparative-legal.

Conclusions: It has been proved that the safety parameters of agricultural products stipulated by the legislation of Ukraine mainly comply with the EU standards, but certain issues need to be improved. It is substantiated that the main directions of legal security improvement of agricultural products should include acceleration of the update of Ukrainian legislation in order to bring it in line with the EU acts and introduction of effective monitoring by involving the public to the field of agricultural product safety, implementation of which will contribute to the development of the Public Health system.