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1 st WorkshopXIII International Feed Technology SymposiumREGULATIONS AND ECOLOGICAL RISKS OF FOODPROCESSING INDUSTRY OF SERBIA APPROACHING THEEUROPEAN UNIONZvonko Nježić, Jasmina ŽivkovićInstitute for Food Technology Novi Sad, Bul. Cara Lazara 1, 21000 Novi Sad, SerbiaABSTRACTThe inclusion in the international trends and approximation with the European Unionbrings also the necessity of harmonisation of national legislation with the European andworld legislation. Adopting of regulations, harmonised with the international one, doesnot include only a legal aspect but it also makes the pre-condition for export of domesticproducts and possibility of financial support. Passing of a set of regulations in the fieldof environmental protection, which are harmonised with the EU legislation, makes aconcrete contribution to these processes. The analysis of ecological risks and impacts onthe environment, which needs to be carried out, represents a significant segment of theseprocesses. The analyses of effluents (by-products) in food production have shown thatthose effluents also contain different quantities of toxic substances that pollute theenvironment as they are discharged or disposed. The largest polluters in our countryinclude energy production, petrochemical industry, and chemical industry. Effluents andpollution caused by them have been processed and resolved as acute. Due to a circularflow of pollution through air, water, soil, flora, and fauna, it is transferred into the foodchain and threatens health safety of food production, both in our country and in theworld. The waste coming from food industry is a big problem but it can also make a richsource of raw materials in other bio-technologies, pharmaceutical industry, source ofenergy, compost etc. Through application of the best available techniques, obtaining ofintegrated permits for the operation of food-processing industry plants types of activities,supervision, and other issues of significance for prevention and control of environmentalpollution are defined. “The best” technique refers to the most efficient performance inaccomplishing of a high general level of environmental protection.Key words: regulations, risk analysis, environmental protection, food industryINTRODUCTIONUnderstanding the significance of use of effluents in the chain of mass production offood, in accordance with scientific and technological capacities, the methods aresearched for their practical, safe and economically justified resolving. An appropriatemonitoring is set after the evaluation of the current status and analysis of environmentalimpact. The results of monitoring, best available techniques (BAT), national legislationthat needs to be harmonised with the world standards are decisive for setting up of amodel of environmental friendly disposal of effluents coming from food-processingindustry. The environment is threatened by generating and piling up of waste materials.334