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Swiss giant Nestle plans to resume sales of popular Maggi noodles in India

Xinhua, October 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Swiss consumer goods giant Nestle has resumed manufacturing of its popular Maggi noodles in India and plans to resume sales by November.

Indian food safety authorities in May this year banned the production and sale of the instant noodles after laboratory tests revealed they contained dangerously high levels of lead.

The ban was later overturned by the High Court in Mumbai in August.

"We have resumed manufacturing of Maggi noodles at three of our plants, at Nanjangud (in the southern state of Karnataka), Moga (in northern state of Punjab) and Bicholim (in western state of Goa)," a Nestle India spokesperson told the media Monday.

The instant noodles arrived in India in 1983 and soon became a household name. But it lost sales after high levels of lead were found and the impact of the scare saw Nestle cut its global growth forecast for 2015.

Nestle had claimed to have destroyed 400 million packets of Maggi products, after the scare took the noodles off the shelves. Enditem