Nestle South Africa said on Monday that it has resumed selling Maggi noodles in India again after five months Swiss food giant pulled the best-selling product from shelves following a safety scare.
Nestlé said it had made its decision following tests by government-accredited labs in India that showed the noodles were safe to eat.
The noodles are one of the company’s biggest sellers in India, and the withdrawal was blamed as a factor behind the Swiss food giant’s weaker sales performance in recent months.
“We’ve been through arguably a big crisis,” Suresh Narayanan, the managing director of Nestlé’s Indian arm told reporters in New Delhi on Monday. “It was most unfortunate for Nestlé to be embroiled in this.”
India’s food-safety watchdog banned the sale of Nestlé’s Maggi 2-Minute Noodles after it said tests had detected impermissibly high levels of lead in the product.
