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Bhubaneswar, June 3: Responding to an advisory from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the state government has sent samples of Maggi noodles to the Central Food Laboratory in Pune for urgent testing. A report is awaited.
“We have sent around 25 samples of Maggi noodles from 14 different places across the state to the FSSAI-accredited Central Food Laboratory in Pune for detailed tests,” health and family welfare minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak told the media here Wednesday. After receiving the test report, further action would be taken, he said.
Asked as to how much time it would take to receive the report from Pune, the minister replied, “We have sent the samples to the laboratory two days ago. We hope we will very soon get the test report.” Several states are doing the same, and some have already taken the product out of shop shelves, amid an outcry over it having excess amount of lead content.
State food commissioner Babaji Charan Das meanwhile said the state government had earlier sent the Maggi samples to the state public health laboratory for tests. But, the laboratory said it did not have the facility to detect lead content. So, the samples were sent to the Central food laboratory in Pune, he said.
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