With questions being raised that Maggi noodles was unsafe for consumption, Odisha government today said it has sent samples of the food product to an accredited laboratory in Pune for testing.
Odisha govenrment would take action on the basis of the test report, state health and family welfare Secretary Arati Ahuja said replying to a question.
"The state government has sent 25 samples of Maggi noodles from 14 different places to the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) accredited Central Food Laboratory at Pune for test," she added.
State Food Commissioner Babaji Charan Das said the state government had earlier sent the Maggi noodles samples to the state public health laboratory for testing. But as the laboratory does not have the facility to detect lead content, the samples were sent to Central Food Laboratory at Pune for further tests.
