The Food Referral Laboratory, CFTRI, Mysuru has confirmed that Nestle's Maggi products confirm to the stipulated standards.The State Food Drugs Authority (FDA), which conducted tests on the instant noodles samples, had earlier cleared the product for safety.
Goa FDA Director Salim Veljee said on Monday that consequent to the issue of the quality of the Nestle's Maggi noodles variant in May/June, the State FDA Goa Laboratory at Bambolim in north Goa had initially tested/analysed five samples of Nestle's Maggi two minutes noodles products and same were reported to be conforming to the stipulated standards in terms of lead content and MSG as laid down under the provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and the Rules/Regulation 2011.
However, he recalled that on account of some apprehensions expressed about the reliability / accuracy/ credibility of the results of analysis conducted by the State FDA Goa Laboratory, the samples of these noodles were subjected for a re-analysis of the said five Maggi noodle products at the Goa State Pollution Control Board laboratory in the city the results of which were found to be consistent with the findings of the Goa FDA Lab in declaring the lead contents to be below the permissible limit of 2.5 ppm and negative for MSG.
Subsequently in mid-June as required under Rule 2.4.3 of the Food Safety and Standards Rules 2011, the other sealed samples portions of these same 5 Maggi noodles samples were forwarded to the Appellate.
Food Referral Laboratory, CFTRI, Mysuru, an FSSAI approved/notified NABL accredited Food Testing Laboratory and the test reports from CFTRI.
Mysuru laboratory says Nestle Maggi is safe - The Hindu
