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MOSCOW - Two Ukrainian enterprises - Hadiachsyr and Prometei - have been allowed to resume cheese exports to the Russian market following the results of laboratory tests conducted by Russia's consumer rights watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor head and Russia's chief epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko told Interfax on May 17.

Rospotrebnadzor examined 14 samples of cheese provided by Hadiachsyr and Prometei, he said.

"We have complaints regarding three of the seven samples sent by the Prometei plant. We will not allow these batches to be delivered to Russia. It is approximately 39 tonnes. But we have issued a permit for the sale of the remaining 11 batches – four from the Prometei plant and seven from the Hadiachsyr plant," he said.

Onishchenko said that these enterprises could resume deliveries to Russia whenever they want.

"All of the cheese samples from these two enterprises matched only the minimum permitted requirements, primarily in terms of their fatty acid content. We have warned the importers that control will continue over the next batches," he said.

Rospotrebnadzor specialists are also examining samples of cheese provided by two more Ukrainian enterprises – Dubnomoloko and the Pyriatyn cheese plant, which plan to export their products to Russia as well, the official said.

Onishchenko and Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister Petro Poroshenko held talks in Moscow on April 17, after which a decision was adopted to lift an embargo from three Ukrainian cheese makers. Poroshenko and Onishchenko told journalists after their meeting that Ukrainian cheese would return to the Russian market if there were no complaints from Russia.

On February 7, the Russian authorities banned exports of cheese produced by a number of Ukrainian enterprises, citing their failure to meet Russian quality requirements for milk and dairy products.