In Karnataka, four months after the ban of Maggi noodles, state government is planning to lift the ban as toxic like lead, MSG were not found in the samples. (Image: PTI)
In Karnataka, four months after the ban of Maggi noodles, state government is planning to lift the ban as toxic like lead, MSG were not found in the samples.
According to reports, state health minister UT Khader said that the state government didn’t find any toxic element in the product samples tested in the state.
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The ban was invoked by the Karnataka government after Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) directed for the temporary stop. After preliminary tests conducted at one of the private labs of Karnataka, they indicated that the lead levels in the maggi were above the permissible limit.
State Health Minister told the Times of India, “We are thinking on lifting the ban of Maggi sales, as there is no clarity on when the ban was imposed. We followed what the central government said and we tested the Maggi samples in the labs accredited by National Accreditation of Board for testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL). The results said that the lead content was within permissible limits. We tested the same sample in a lab in Kolkata, and the lead content 2.6 particles per million. We don’t know which lab results to believe. How would the same sample differ in the content when tested in two different places.”