BANGALORE: The Bombay High Court on August 11, 2015 ruled out nationwide ban on the sale of Nestle India’s Maggi ordered by the food safety regulators, reports TOI.
The penal bench headed by Justice V M Kanade and Justice Burgess Colabawalla allowed Nestle to file a petition against the ban imposed on manufacture and sale of the popular 2-minute Maggi noodles, that was passed on June 5, 2015, after the samples were tested supposedly high of lead content.
The court stated that “principles of natural justice" and procedures were not followed before Food Safety Standard Association of India (FSSAI) imposed the ban. Also the manner in which they issued a ban without even a show cause notice is questioned by the court. The court further cited that the samples were not tested at authorized laboratories that are accredited by National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), which raises doubts on the results.
Apart from these, this is an issue of public interest and health so the court asked Nestle to pass five samples of its nine variants of Maggi noodles to accredited labs at Hyderabad, Mohali and Jaipur.
If the samples supplied by the company are tested with lead content within permissible limits then Nestle will be allowed to its start manufacturing again.
The labs are to return the sample results in six weeks and then there will be another round of testing of the new Maggi produced by the company and if it tests are proved low on lead content again then Nestle will be allowed to be sold in the Indian market.
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