In today's global society, many yet unsolved problems are directly related to the standard of living of the population of our planet. One of these serious problems is the ensuring of the quality of food products, agricultural products, and drinking water (Directorate-General for Research and Innovation Biotechnologies,Agriculture, Food 2010). Ensuring proper quality of food products and drinking water is a very important aspect in the current context, as it is the most important condition for formation of the healthy human potential on the national and global levels. In turn, the development of healthy human potential is the basis for the transition
to the new social and economic relations, based on knowledge. New socioeconomic relations suggest that the cognitive basis is fundamental for savior of the modern civilization and transfer of the World System to sustainable development. Accordingly, the relevance and importance of the issues of quality management in the field of food, water supply, and generally in the field of agricultural production is undeniable. Speaking of quality management, it is worth noting in a general sense that the concept of quality management as a scientific theory is relatively new on the one hand, but the problems of ensuring quality of food and production
of food products accompany the modern civilization on its whole historical development path. It is no secret that the modern quality management in the field of agricultural production is in many respects not so perfect and efficient, as the adopted quality standards require even in developed countries. In particular, the standards of agricultural products' quality adopted in the European Union are not complied with by all countries. More often violations of the standards of quality of agricultural raw materials and the production of food products from them
are detected in countries that are associate members of the European Union (Agricultural quality standards in European Union 2011). Problems of quality management as a whole (Ishikawa 1985), and particularly the problems of the agricultural production quality management increasingly become the subject of consideration and scientific discussions at various levels. At the same time, we must not forget that the efficiency of quality management of agricultural products is directly related to public health in the regions of the world (Water Quality and Agriculture 2012). That is why the issues of improving the quality management of agricultural products and its safety for the environment and consumers are included in the scope of the public interest to
ensure the national security of virtually all developed and developing countries.