Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor)

Rospotrebnadzor is the Federal agency that works to provide oversight and control of wellbeing and consumer rights and protection of the citizens of the Russian Federation. Rospotrebnadzor reports directly to the Government of the Russian Federation.

More specifically, Rospotrebnadzor is the executive body which carries out the functions for the formulation and enforcement of state policy and legislation in the field of consumer rights protection, as well as the development and approval of the state sanitary and epidemiological guidelines and hygienic norms. In addition, Rospotrebnadzor is responsible for carrying out the federal state sanitary and epidemiological surveillance and federal state monitoring in the field of consumer rights protection.