Ensuring environmental safety of the food industry: Influence on leadership positions in the economy

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the peculiarities of ensuring environmental safety of products of the food industry. The problems of ensuring environmental safety of the food industry have been identified and the current state and the trends of food industry development in Ukraine have been analyzed. For increasing the leadership positions of the food industry of Ukraine in order to ensure its environmental safety, it has been proposed to strengthen the effective interaction of all interested parties - the state, food industry enterprises, agricultural producers and research institutions. Keywords: Economy; Ecological safety; Food industry; Competitiveness   References The Law of Ukraine On Quality and Safety of Food Products and Food Raw Materials As amended by the Laws of Ukraine // The Official Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine). 2005. No. 50. Art. 533. Shevchenko R.I. (2015) Environmental safety of food products: definition of the concept. Food Science and Technology. 1: 65-70. Romanko S.M. (2008) Economic and legal mechanism for providing environmental safety of agricultural products: Author’s Abstract…Candidate of Juridical Sciences: 12.00.06 / S.M. Romanco; National Agrarian University, K., 19 p. The Official Website of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved from: http://www.ukrstаt.gоv.uа Velychko O.V. (2011) Mechanism for formation of the national investment and innovation system of Ukraine: monograph / O. V. Velychko, M. M. Dubovykov, O. V. Liashchenko. Luhansk: Elton-2, 186 p. Nyzhnyk V. M. (2013) Mechanisms for increasing the competitive potential of industrial enterprises: monograph / edited by the Doctor of Economic Sciences, Prof. V. M. Nyzhnyk, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor M. V. Nikolaichuk. Khmelnytsky: KhNU. 347 p. Novoitenko I.V., Slobodian N.Ya., Malynovskyi V.V. (2016) Prospects for the development of the food industry in Ukraine. Global and National Problems of Economy: collections of scientific works. V.O. Sukhomlynskyi National University of Mykolaiv. 11: 454-460. Semenenko O.H. (2017) Analysis of food industry development in Ukraine. Economic Herald of the University. 33 (1): 168-182.