New Delhi, December 11: A day after apex consumer commission National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (NCDRC) directed further testing of 16 more samples of Maggi noodles in connection with the government’s Rs 640 crore suit against Nestle India, the Supreme Court issued notice to the firm on Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI) appeal against the Bombay High Court order of lifting ban on the famous banned noddle — Maggi — and set the date for next hearing on January 13, 2016.
Hearing a petition filed by FSSAI who was challenging the Bombay High Court order, the apex court issued a notice to Nestle India on Friday. The decision came just a day after NCDRC issued directed the international firm for undergoing further 16 safety test for the excess amount of lead the noddle contains in Chennai based testing institute, if they want to launch Maggie in the market again. The noodles was banned in June 2015 for excess quantity of lead and monosodium glutamate (MSG) in them. (ALSO READ: Maggie Ban: Crushed noodles used as fuel in cement factory in Karnataka (Watch Video))
The process of sending the samples to the testing firm is scheduled to begin on December 14 and as per the report, the testing firm in Mysuru — Central Food Technological Research Institute — would submit its report for 13 samples to the court on January 12, 2016, and would show the reports on January 13, 2016 in the next hearing. Reacting on teh appeal of Nestle India Pvt. Ltd. on why the testing are being done after the Bombay High Court order, the bench of NCDRC said in a statement, “It cannot be disputed that some doubt on the safety of the product will continue to persist till issue involved is finally decided by way of an adjudication based on the laboratory reports. But, the product in question being a food product of mass consumption by almost every section of the society, it is imperative to test and analyse its ingredients in an exhaustive manner, before a clean chit can be given to it.” (ALSO READ: Maggie Ban: Nestle moves to Bombay High Court against ban, hearing on Friday)
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