The state of meat and meat products production in Ukraine is described and analyzed. The influence of these parameters on the formation of the machinery and equipment fleet of the domestic meat industry, as well as the possibility and feasibility of providing this industry with food technology of Ukrainian production, is evaluated. The prospect of domestic machine building for meat production is to identify fairly narrow segments of equipment of medium technical complexity (for example, very well-developed top designs), which should be improved to maintain its own niche in the domestic equipment market and possible entry into the markets of other countries. But for the technically sophisticated meat cutting equipment (bowl cutters and emulsifiers), powerful casing fillers, automatic brine injectors, etc. it’s advisable to import until our machine building enterprises reach such a technical level that would really make it possible to produce equipment that is competitive on the world market. Mastery of innovative solutions in the field of equipment for the meat industry is facilitated by properly organized technical regulation, in particular the standardization and harmonization of national standards with international and European ones.