Analysis of Consumer Preferences and Veterinary and Sanitary Evaluation of the Cooked Sausages Quality Produced by Primorsk Manufacturers

Sausage products occupy one of the leading positions in the nutritional structure of the population of our country and other countries of the world. Thousands of new meat processing plants have been commissioned in Russia. According to statistics, the sausage market is one of the fastest growing markets in the Russian food industry. And although the sausage market in Russia has undergone significant qualitative changes over the past few years, this position enables both Russian and Western companies to look at it in the future. The emergence of new players in the sausage market has increased competition and, in turn, is prompting manufacturers to improve the quality of their products and pay more attention to promoting their own products. Most sausage products are positioned in a fairly high price segment, but this cannot protect consumers from purchasing counterfeit products. The issue of food safety and quality control of these types of proucts, remains relevant today. The article analyses the assortment of sausage products sold in Ussuriysk shops, gives the results of organoleptic and physico-chemical indices of the examined samples of cooked sausages, gives the conclusion about the quality of the examined meat product samples and the possibility of their realization in the trade network.