Роскачество has checked up the most popular cottage cheese brands in Russia and has come to disappointing conclusions. Many manufacturers of the popular sour-milk product do not disdain falsification. Vegetable fats found in the curd of a number of regional brands. In addition, producers often add starch or vegetable proteins to cottage cheese. Sometimes the fat content indicated on the package does not correspond to the actual one, or preservatives are added to the product, which should not be. In the curd of six brands, an E. coli was found, and 14 more producers allowed the appearance of mold and yeast in their products. Here and there there is not enough sour-milk bacteria, however experts do not consider this a big violation.

"Heating, of course, destroys an insignificant part of the microflora, but this cottage cheese becomes more friable, it has less moisture, and therefore there is no environment for development including harmful microorganisms. Such cottage cheese is safe and popular with consumers, "Larisa Abdullayeva, head of the standardization group of the Dairy Union of Russia, told Roskah.. In addition, nine trademarks found the excess of antibacterial substances above the permissible level, the "360".