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Supreme Court allows Nestle to destroy 550 tons of expired Maggi noodles

News Agencies | Updated on: 11 February 2017, 5:45 IST

The Supreme Court today allowed Nestles plea of destroying 550 tons of Maggi which had expired content as well as more than the permissible limit of lead.

A division bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Dipak Misra said this after hearing from Nestle.

On 5 April, a Mysore-based government laboratory had given its test report on Maggi noodles in a sealed cover to the apex court.

On 13 January, the top court had asked the Mysore lab to clarify whether test reports relating to lead and glutamic acid in Maggi noodles were within permissible parameters under the law.

The Consumer Commission had on 10 December last year sent 16 more samples of Maggi noodles for testing in the Chennai lab to ascertain the quantity of lead and MSG in them in connection with the government's Rs 640 crore suit against the company for alleged unfair trade practices.

The court had on 16 December last year ordered testing of samples of Maggi noodles in the Mysore laboratory after the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) had directed that it be done in Chennai.

The apex court had stayed the proceedings before the NCDRC and directed that the test reports, including the earlier one, be placed before it.

-ANI

First published: 3 October 2016, 3:45 IST