DHAKA: Nestle has relaunched its popular Maggi noodles in India, five months after a food scare saw them taken off shelves.

In May, Indian food safety authorities banned the production and sale of Maggi amid claims they contained dangerously high levels of lead.

The ban was overturned in the Bombay High Court in August.

Nestle India’s new boss, Suresh Narayanan, has told the BBC the tests which were carried out on the noodles were ‘highly unreliable’.

Nestle had to destroy 400 million packets of Maggi products and stop production in the wake of the tests.

The product recall cost the company $67m.

A company statement on Monday said it had been ‘a challenging period for the Nestle organization and therefore, there is a feeling of satisfaction at bringing back Maggi noodles to the market’.

BDST: 1551 HRS, Nov 09, 2015
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