The Centre will take appropriate action once the test reports of Maggi samples are received from the states, Health Minister J P Nadda today said.
"The centre had asked the states to take samples of Maggi and send the report by June 1. But as testing of samples takes time, reports from many states have not come yet. We hope to get the reports by this evening and may take appropriate action on the basis of reports," he said.
Meanwhile, nineteen samples of Maggi noodles were collected from dealers and manufacturing units in the industrial town of Tahliwal of Himachal Pradesh.
Reports are awaited as the food analysis labs in the state did not have enough facility to test the reported lead content in the noodles. The samples have been sent to the adjoining states.
Meanwhile, the sale of Maggi has dropped in the state as people are weary of buying the snack after reports of lead content above permissible limit were found in the Maggi samples, Additional Chief Secretariat, Health, Vineet Chaudhary said.
After Delhi, four more states--Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand--today banned the sale of Maggi noodles, as the popular instant snack came under mounting scrutiny over food safety concerns.
The Uttarakhand government banned the sale of Nestle's instant noodles for three months while in Gujarat the ban will be effective for one month after some samples of the food had failed lab tests, officials said in Dehradun and Gandhinagar.
