New Delhi: Maggi is now set to be back in your kitchen. Nestle, the manufacturer of the 2-minute noodles, has declared that the newly manufactured Maggi has been found safe in tests.
Nestle has also announced that the retail sale of the noodles will resume in November itself.
This comes over a week after Nestle said that it had resumed the production of Maggi at three of its India facilities and that the instant noodle would hit the markets after clearances from food testing laboratories.
In compliance with the Bombay High Court order, the company, which was forced to withdraw Maggi from market and stop production in June following tests by certain labs allegedly finding lead and MSG beyond permissible limits, had sent the first samples of the fresh batches to three accredited labs for tests.
In June, the FSSAI had banned Maggi noodle product saying it was "unsafe and hazardous" for consumption after finding lead levels beyond permissible limits. The company had withdrawn the instant noodle brand from the market.
Nestle India, which took a hit of Rs 450 crore, including destroying over 30,000 tonnes of the instant noodles since June when it was banned because of alleged excessive lead content, had stated that it would continue with the existing formula of the product and would not change the ingredients.
The Consumer Affairs Ministry had also filed a class action suit against Nestle India seeking about Rs 640 crore in damages for alleged unfair trade practices, false labeling and misleading advertisements.
It was for the first time that the ministry dragged a company to the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) using a provision in the nearly three-decade-old Consumer Protection Act.
(With PTI Inputs)
Summary of 90 results (6 variants, 5 samples each)90 results done for lead at 3 NABL accredited laboratories in India (Source: Maggi India)
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