After the ban on Nestle’s Maggi, more food products are now under the scanner.

The Maharashtra government Wednesday directed the state’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test samples of all snacks made by Haldiram’s, a reputed snack and sweet manufacturer based out of Nagpur.

Vidya Thakur, Minister of State, FDA, said the directives had been issued to Maharashtra FDA Commissioner Harshadeep Kamble. Thakur said the United States FDA had recently banned most of the snacks made by Haldiram’s for sale claiming that these products “had been found to contain high level of pesticides, mold, and bacteria salmonella”.

While Haldiram’s has refuted the claims saying their products were “100% safe”, Thakur said the state government had sought a report from the FDA since these products were consumed on a massive scale in Maharashtra. Kamble, meanwhile, said samples of Haldiram’s variants had already been collected from Nagpur.

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