MOSCOW, August 29 (RAPSI) – Four McDonald’s restaurants have been closed in the city of Krasnodar following an inspection by food safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, RIA Novosti reported on Friday, citing the company’s PR director in Russia Svetlana Polyakova.

She said that Rospotrebnadzor was simultaneously inspecting 100 McDonald’s restaurants across Russia.

These inspections began in August.

McDonald’s, the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, has over 430 restaurants in 75 Russian regions.

According to the company’s press service, 12 restaurants have been suspended in Russia over sanitary violations: four in Krasnodar (southern Russia), three in Moscow (including the first ever McDonald’s restaurant in Russia, on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street), one each in Serpukhov (Moscow Region), Stavropol (southern Russia) and Yekaterinburg (the Urals), and two in Sochi on the Black Sea coast.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said that Rospotrebnadzor did not plan to inspect all McDonald’s restaurants in Russia. She also said these were planned inspections.