MOSCOW, September 11. /ITAR-TASS/. There are no plans to ban McDonald’s restaurants, but sanitary norms must be brought back in order, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the ITAR-TASS Top Officials project.

“I have long stopped going there. However, I went to the very first McDonald’s restaurant that opened on Pushkin Square in 1990 with my daughter,” the foreign minister said.

He did not link probes into the fast food chain with a TV spot advertising a new burger with sanctioned parmesan.

“Deputy Prime Minister Dvorkovich has already said that nobody is planning to ban this fast food chain. Necessary checks will be made, sanitary norms will be brought back in order… As for parmesan, any kind of cheese can be produced if one invests effort and knowledge. This is not a problem,” he said.