That ban was later overturned in the Bombay High Court in August. The recall cost Nestle, which had disputed the findings, about 66 million Swiss francs ($67 million), Reuters reported.
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Nestle had claimed to have destroyed 400 million packets of Maggi products, after the scare took the noodles off the shelves.
“November is envisaged as the date”, a spokesman said of a sales resumption.
“In compliance with orders of the Bombay High Court, fresh samples from the newly manufactured batches will be sent for testing”, another senior Nestle official said.
The company had said in a statement earlier this month that fresh tests, mandated by an Indian court, found the noodles to be safe, with levels of lead well below permissible limits.
Nestle company on Monday announced that it has started manufacturing their instant noodles Maggi in India and it will hit the markets after getting clearances from food testing laboratories and they say it was nearly done and good news for everyone is Maggi is being processed.
“We shall commence sale only after the samples are cleared by these laboratories”, it said. The company’s market valuation declined by Rs 782.1 crore to Rs 3,311.90 crore.
Nestle India had been caught in a miserable law suit thrown by the “Consumer Affairs Ministry” and they demanded a damage compensation of Rs 640 crores for “alleged unfair trade practices, false labeling and misleading advertisements”.
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“We have received test results from all three laboratories mandated by the Bombay High Court to test Maggi Noodles samples”.
