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Written By: Agencies | Updated : June 15, 2015 10:09 PM IST
Maharashtra government is the latest state to ban the sale of Nestle's Maggi noodles. This move was announced by Food and Civil Suplies Minister Girish Bapat after reports of six Maggi samples were received from a Pune testing lab.
According to these reports, the lead content in the samples was found to be far in excess of 2.5 parts per million (ppm). The lab report found the lead content to be 4.66 ppm, 2.59 ppm and 2.55 ppm.
The minister has directed shopkeepers to immediately return unsold stocks of Maggi noodles and barred them from sales with liability of penal action. The order comes hours after the FDA commissioner announced that Maggi noodles were found safe with nine samples testing negative. Nestle was asked to recall all 9 nine variants of Maggi on Friday. Read more...
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Source: IANS
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