Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) CEO Yudhvir Singh Malik on Thursday said Nestle, the manufacturer must recall all faulty packets of Maggi after receiving reports of samples from Delhi and Kerala.
“The law states that as soon as it comes to a [manufacturer’s] notice – that there is something wrong with the product, he is supposed to take recourse to recalling and withdrawing it, under intimation to the consumers as well as to the competent authority. It needs enforcement as well as self-compliance. Whether a sample size can be seen as a representative sample size… the law says that if you draw samples from a particular batch, and that sample is found to be failing, then that product is said to be failing unless you have contrary evidence. Noodles has nine variants. If you find the problem to persist in it, then you can confine your ban to that one variant,” Malik told media here.
“If I am a food product manufacturer, I am supposed to have my own quality checks. How rigorously do they maintain it and follow it up is a question that the management will have to look up,” he added, referring to the Maggi case.
Malik further stated that a compilation of the reports received may take some more time.
“We received reports from Delhi and Kerala; we have also received reports from Goa which were found to be inappropriate. The reports from Delhi and Kerala are absolutely authentic. Two other states have sent us reports, they have been requested to send us proper reports again. This might take two or three days more,” he said.
In wake of samples of Maggi being found to contain an excess of lead, Delhi, Uttarakhand and Gujarat have banned the instant noodles.
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