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MOSCOW - Rospotrebnadzor plans to allow the Ukrainian enterprise Dubnomoloko, which has been inspected by Russian experts, to supply cheese to Russia. Dubnomoloko will be the fourth Ukrainian enterprise to be allowed to supply cheese to Russia.

"We have looked through the plant’s materials and we have enough grounds to allow them to supply their products," Rospotrebnadzor director and Russia’s chief sanitary inspector Gennady Onishchenko told Interfax.

"The problems we have talked about can be resolved," he said.

Rospotrebnadzor earlier allowed three Ukrainian enterprises (OOO Gadyachsyr, AO Piryatinsky Cheese Plant, and ChP KF Prometei (Mensky branch)) to supply cheese to Russia.

The decision was made to lift the embargo on the supply of cheese from the three Ukrainian enterprises at a meeting between Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister Pyotr Poroshenko and Onishchenko in Moscow on April 17. After the meeting, Onishchenko told reporters Ukrainian cheese would return to the Russian market if the Russian authorities have no problem with Ukrainian cheese.

Russia banned the import of cheese from some Ukrainian enterprises on Feb. 7 because their products failed to meet the Russian technical regulations on milk and dairy products.