NAINITAL: Uttarakhand high court on Monday ordered the state government to submit analysis report of the Maggi samples as an affidavit within next 10 days. The court was hearing a case by Nestle India, the product's manufacturer, who moved HC against the three-month ban imposed by the Uttrakhand government on the instant noodle.
"The court asked us to submit the report of the food analyst through affidavit. The HC did not give any interim order for now and scheduled the next hearing in the case on July 20," said Subhash Upadhyay, chief standing counsel.
The writ Nestle India filed on June 5 also requested that due process of law was not followed by the state government and the ban order is "without jurisdiction". On the contrary, the state government argued that the ban was imposed using relevant sections of the Food Safety and Standards Act 2006.
Meanwhile, the latest and final report prepared by state food and medicine analysis office in Rudrapur indicated that 37, of 55 samples, collected from the 13 districts of the hill state contained more than permissible lead and monosodium glutamate (MSG) content.
State's food security department decided to ban Maggie on June 3, after lead and MSG contents were detected in the product. Series of raids in the districts of Kumaon division resulted in seizure of tonnes of instant noodle. Thousands of packets were seized recently by the district administration of Udham Singh Nagar, Nainital, Bageshwar, Champawat and Pithoragarh.
The production units of Nestle in SIDCUL (State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand Limited), Udham Singh Nagar have stopped the production of Maggi for now. All the five units in the factory used to produce around 300 tonnes of Maggi noodles for sale and supply in the state and adjoining districts of Uttar Pradesh.
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