India's food safety regulator says tests have found the instant
noodles "unsafe and hazardous" and has accused Nestle of failing to
comply with food safety laws.
The company insists that the noodles are safe and is challenging the ban.
The
company said in a statement that value of withdrawn noodles include
stocks taken off the shelves and stocks stored in factories and with
distributors.
"There will be additional costs to take into
account, for example bringing stock from the market, transporting the
stock to the destruction points, destruction cost etc. The final figure
will have to be confirmed at a later date," Nestle said.
Earlier
this month, Nestle began withdrawing the Maggi brand from stores, after
regulators said they found higher-than-allowed levels of lead in some
packets.
The company is challenging the ban in the high court in
the city of Mumbai and "raised issues of interpretation" of India's food
safety laws.
Nestle's global chief executive Paul Bulcke has
asked to see the results of the laboratory tests and promised to return
Maggi to store shelves soon.
Several states have also been testing the noodles for the chemical monosodium glutamate, widely known as MSG.
The instant noodles arrived in India in 1983 and can be found in corner shops across the country.
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