Zee Media Bureau
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court will on Friday take for hearing a petition filed by multinational giant Nestle India Ltd against orders of food authorities banning nine variants of its instant product "Maggi" from the Indian market for being "hazardous" to public health.
The revision application (appeal against the impugned orders passed by authorities in Delhi and Maharashtra) was mentioned orally by the company's counsel before a division bench of Justice V M Kanade and B P Colabawalla yesterday.
The court posted it for hearing today.
Nestle urged the HC to quash the June 5 order of Delhi-based Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and its Chief Executive Officer asking the company to withdraw and recall all its nine variants of Maggi from the market as they were unsafe and hazardous for human consumption.
The impugned orders also asked the company to stop production, processing, import, distribution and sale of their products with immediate effect, said Nestle.
Nestle also prayed for setting aside the impugned order of Commissioner of Food Safety, Government of Maharashtra, banning the production and sale of 'Maggi' products of the company in the State.
With Agency Inputs
