The article presents the results of a study of personnel management system, conducted in a large coal mining company, which had revealed certain weaknesses in the organization of the management of personnel along with the lack of strategic quality planning. Additionally, there are recommendations made for the improvement of methods aimed at assessment of competitiveness of personnel.

Consumer demand for functional foods in connection with the dynamic development of the trend of a healthy lifestyle increases from year to year. That is why the development of fundamentally new products with high nutritional and biological value, which heal and normalize the intestinal microflora, have a high antagonistic activity against a wide range of pathogenic microorganisms is relevant now.