Information and technological support of the system of food quality and safety management in the digital economical environment

Globalization of food production and circulation chains creates difficulties in their regulation, as well as problems in ensuring the quality and safety of food. Inefficiency of the traditional management models; insufficient transparency of operations; fragmented information bases - such is an incomplete list of factors that necessitate a complete revision of the food quality and safety management system, and search for new mechanisms for its transformation. Given the current digitalization of socio-economic relations, introduction of end-to-end digital technologies into the existing models would give new opportunities for the innovative development of the system. Thus, it is necessary to build a fully integrated information environment, which will allow not only monitoring the quality and safety of food products, but also improving the quality management and traceability of food products at all stages of its production, circulation and consumption - all within the framework of a single information technological space. The process of its development and implementation requires identification of its functional requirements and a reasonable choice of the appropriate tools. Big Data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain can be considered as technologies with the optimal potential for implementation of the described tasks and requirements. The combination of these factors will contribute to the formation of a reliable digital ecosystem of the food quality management. Formation of a balanced strategy for integrating these technologies into the system of food quality and safety management is a subject of many discussions and a direction of promising research.