Mysuru laboratory says Nestle Maggi is safe

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.

Mr. Veljee, however, hastened to add that this does not in any manner give any clean chit to the company for their products and we fully respect the analytical findings of other State Laboratory in this regards based on the analysis of the samples that were drawn by the enforcement officials in those other States and tested/analysed by such other State Laboratories.

He said he had to come out with the CFTRI findings to clear any apprehension in public mind about Goa State FDA laboratory.

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