Nestle India on Wednesday said it will commence the sale of its Maggi noodles from this month even as the company continues to talk with the governments of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh to resume production in its two factories there.
The decision to restart sales of Maggi noodles comes after Nestle India’s latest samples have been cleared by the three National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories, the company said in a filing to the stock exchanges.
“All the samples of the Maggi Noodles Masala have been cleared with lead much below permissible limits,” it said.
On Tuesday, Nestle said it is “engaging with the relevant authorities in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand to obtain directions for commencing manufacture of Maggi noodles.”
Earlier this year, Nestle India was forced to withdraw and destroy all its Maggi packets from stores across the country after the Food Standards and Safety Authority of India banned the sale of the ready-to-cook noodles after it said it found contents of lead above levels that humans can consume. The company had challenged the ban. The Bombay High Court had allowed the company to resume manufacturing of Maggi Masala Noodles after its earlier samples were cleared by the three labs for lead-content.
Later the company began producing of Maggi Noodles at three of its plants at Nanjangud in Karnataka, Moga in Punjab, and Bicholim in Goa.