The Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) today alleged in the Bombay High Court that Nestle India had violated laws in the country by producing Maggi with lead content more than permissible limits.


"The company had acted in an untrustworthy manner...they had the capacity to produce a safe product but had not done so," Mahmood Pracha, Counsel for FSSAI's CEO, argued before a bench of Justices V M Kanade and B P Colabawalla.


The court was hearing a petition filed by Nestle India against FSSAI's June 5 order banning nine variants of Maggi and Maharashtra government's order prohibiting their sale. Even in foreign countries where Maggi was found to be of sub-standard quality, the product had been banned, said Pracha who cited an instance of the Philippines where it was withdrawn.