FDA finds Haldiram samples safe

About a month ago, minister of state, FDA, Varsha Gaikwad, had asked FDA commissioner Harshdeep Kamble to test Haldiram packets after a US FDA official notice banned the product in America.

“We collected various samples such as sev, bhujia, moong dal and papadi chat after receiving a request from the government,” said Kamble.

Over a month ago, US FDA had detected salmonella bacteria presence in the ready to eat packets of Haldiram apart from high lead content. While Maharashtra FDA conducted tests to check for the same bacteria along with another bacteria, E-coli, all tests came negative.

The Haldiram row follows recent Maggi ban in India which had been found having excessive lead quantities. The permissible limit for lead is 2.5 parts per million (ppm).

According to FDA, Haldiram samples had less than 2.5 ppm lead which brings it under the safe category of consumption.