KIEV, Jan. 13 – The claims of the head of Rospotrebnadzor (the Federal Service on Customers' Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance) and Russia's chief sanitary officer Gennady Onishchenko about Ukrainian cheese supplied to Russia are not backed by proof, according to Vadym Chaharovsky, chairman of the Union of Dairy Companies of Ukraine.

"I think that the statements are not furnished with proof and are biased. It's unclear what methods were used to check this. Onishchenko could be asked so many questions… I'd like the statement to be interpreted as a personal statement by the Russian official, and not as an official position of the Russian government," Chaharovsky said, commenting on the Onishchenko's statement to Interfax-Ukraine.