Supreme Court on Wednesday said the testing of Maggi noodles samples as directed by National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) will now be undertaken by the Mysuru-based Central Food Technological
Research Institute lab.
An apex court bench of Justice Dipak
Misra and Justice Prafulla C. Pant said that the local commissioner
shall collect samples of Maggi noodles from the companies’ Lucknow-based
godown and send them to the lab. The court said the report of the
testing would be submitted before it.
The court order came on Nestle’s appeal
challenging the NCDRC December 9/10 order directing the testing of Maggi
noodles sample by Chennai lab.
The court said the NCDRC would not
proceed with the hearing of the class action suite filed by the union of
India claiming Rs.640 crore from Nestle for marketing noodles with
suspect quality.
Source : IndianMediaBook - Current Affairs
