Maggi is consumed by young people and we are concerned about future of young generation. However, we would like to go by the laboratory's findings, a bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said.
Voicing concern over the consumption of Maggi noodles by the young people, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said, "We are concerned about the future of young generation," and directed the government laboratory in Mysore to file the final report on the lead content in the noodles within eight weeks.
"Maggi is consumed by young people and we are concerned about future of young generation. However, we would like to go by the laboratory's findings," a bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said.
The bench asked the government laboratory, the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore, to clarify whether test reports showed lead and monosodium glutamate (MSG) in Maggi noodles were within permissible limits.
The apex court passed the order after perusing two communications received from the Mysore laboratory, which had carried out the test about the MSG content in the samples earlier in October last year.
While maker of Maggi noodles Nestle India claimed that the lead content was within the limit prescribed under the Food Safety Act, the Centre said there was a need for comprehensive findings of all other parameters.
"We have perused the test reports. We would like the lab to apprise this court on two aspects, whether the test report relating to lead and glutamic acid are within the permissible parameters and to clarify that those are within parameters prescribed under the Food Safety Act," the bench said while posted the matter for April five.
On December 16, the court had 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 Supreme Court was hearing a plea filed by Nestle India Ltd against the order of NCDRC.
The NCDRC had sent 16 more samples of Maggi noodles for testing in the Chennai lab, in connection with the government's Rs 640 crore suit against Nestle for alleged unfair trade practices.
The apex court had stayed the proceedings before NCDRC and had directed that the test reports, including the earlier one, be placed before it.
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