Bombay High Court asks Nestle, food safety regulator to retest Maggi noodles

It has taking into consideration that questioned the results along the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) with the Bombay High Court.

Nestle, in its petition, challenged the ban on Maggi variants claiming that the tests conducted by FSSAI and FDA were unreliable and that Nestle products did not contain lead beyond permissible limits.

The food regulators reiterated that the lead content detected in Maggi during tests by renowned labs was detrimental to public health. The Bombay High Court today reserved the order of company against FSSAI and order is scheduled for Monday.

“For us, consumer interest is most important… this litigation may go on but we feel that the issue should be resolved amicably and therefore we suggested the parties to agree to a fresh independent test”, the bench observed.

The FDA Mumbai officials have said that they cannot approve retesting the Maggi samples because the samples could be tampered.

The company tested the samples after the announcement of FDA and reported that is safe to eat but the FDA Maharashtra has banned the product across the state.

Chagla argued that while three Maggi variants were tested, the regulators banned all the nine variants, and rejected FSSAI’s allegations that the company destroyed evidence by burning Maggi stocks.

The firm backed out the Maggi from Indian markets during the month of June.

The FFSAI order said the samples had been found unsafe and hazardous for human consumption and asked it to stop further production, processing, imports, distribution and sale.