should be paid to socially significant goods, including medicines, food and building materials, mikhail mishustithis at a meeting with the head of fas. many retail chains behave responsibly and do not raise prices. for example, the department calculated the average level of markups for eleven retailers in 25 product categories. in the previous year, the indicator decreased by 8%, over the entire monitoring period by 15. work is underway to increase the social responsibility of manufacturers and retail chains. as a result of our agreements, retail chains voluntarily reduce markups on so-called first-price products that are most affordable in each product category. and today , the practice of responsible pricing and limiting markups on socially important food products proposed by fas russia is supported by about 98 more regional retail chains, as well as many non-chain stores. as a result. 2022 fas analyzed the cost of 9,000 drugs and agreed with the pricing of 8,000 in the first half of 2023, 4,500 products passed control, the price of 700 of them was considered unreasonable. an important governm