It was reacting to media reports that emerged on Friday which said that Maggi Pazzta had run into trouble with Uttar Pradesh FDA, and alleged that a report from a lab in Lucknow had found lead levels to be beyond permissible limits.
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Pasta samples collected from Nestle distributor – Sriji Traders – in Mau on 10 June were sent to a government food testing laboratory in Lucknow, said Arvind Yadav, Designated Officer at Food and Drug Administration Mau.
He said that the samples contained 6 PPM, which is much more than the permissible limit, that can’t exceed the standard limit of 2.5 parts per million (PPM).
Yadav, however, said the authority has sent the report to FDA commissioner (Lucknow) on 12 October seeking permission to lodge a case against Nestle India, and it will file a legal complaint once it gets the commissioner’s nod.
Yesterday, a UP state government official has claimed that they had found presence of lead in Nestle’s Pazzta beyond permissible limits.
“According to report received on September 2, they failed the tests”, he added. The ban took a toll over Nestle India, forcing the company into quarterly losses for the first time since its existence in India. We have not received any formal notification from the authorities in UP or from the FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) about such test results.
Nestle also said the, After a rigorous testing, the finished product and raw material are user to make it during every stage of manufacturing process.
It had only resumed sales of Maggi noodles this month after getting clearance from the FSSAI.
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However, the ban was quashed after the Bombay High Court set aside the order, and had asked for fresh tests of all the variants of the two-minute noodles by pre-approved laboratories. The tests were ordered by the court as it overturned the ban, calling it “arbitrary”.
