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MOSCOW - The Federal Consumer Rights and Healthcare Service has broadened the list of Ukrainian cheese makers barred from the Russian market to seven, service head, Chief Public Health Official Gennady Onishchenko told Interfax on Monday.

"We will bar four more plants on Monday," he said.

The service is recalling cheese made by three Ukrainian plants – Prometei in the Chernihiv region, the Pyriatyn dairy plant in the Poltava region and Hadiachsyr in the Poltava region – from Russian shops.

The delivery of cheese from these plants is stopped.

Now the Bashtan and Lozovsky dairy plants, Bel Shostka Ukraine and the Khmelnytsky plant are added to the list.

"Cheese samples taken in Moscow, the Krasnodar territory, the Kaliningrad and Ryazan regions failed to meet Russian requirements," Onishchenko said.

"In all, the selling of 30.6 tonnes of Ukrainian cheese has been suspended in Russia," he said.

Onishchenko told Interfax earlier that more than 120 tonnes of Ukrainian cheese were not permitted to enter the Russian territory.