NEW DELHI: India’s food safety watchdog The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) said it has not given any clean chit to the company’s banned Maggi noodles, while rubbishing all-clear reports from two of its empanelled labs citing lapses in tests.
Rubbishing tests done by the Goa lab, the food regulator said the analysts at the lab had “wrongly taken the permissible limit of lead as 10 parts per million as against the actual maximum permissible level of 2.5 ppm”.
On the report of the CFTRI on the same sample, FSSAI said the Mysore lab had not tested the noodles for the banned MSG.
Nestle had the first sign of rope when reports said that the FSSAI-approved laboratory of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) found Maggi noodles in compliance with the country’s food safety standards.
Meanwhile, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India yesterday rejected findings of the Food & Drugs Laboratory of Goa as well as CFTRI, Mysore over test discrepancies. It also cast doubts over clean chits to Maggi noodles by the UK and Singapore labs saying the Swiss food giant has not shared details of foreign test reports.
