Nestle to destroy £30 million of the popular Maggi noodles

United Kingdom: More than £32 million of Maggi noodles are set to be destroyed by Nestle following safety concerns over the popular foodstuffs. It has been found that they contain unsafe levels of lead. The Maggi noodles, one of Nestle’s massively popular foods, have been targeted by India’s food safety regulator, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). According to the Times of India, tests have found that the noodles are unsafe and hazardous. They also stated in a ruling that the Nestle product hasn’t stood up to food safety laws. Bust the company has denied the accusation made by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India. According to the Nestle officials, the noodles are safe, and have mounted a challenge against the ban. Maggi noodles had bee covering 80 per cent of the country’s noodle market. The report from the FSSAI is a massive blow to the world’s biggest food company’s business in India. The value of withdrawn Maggi noodles was estimated by Nestle to be around £32.3 million. Nestle have been withdrawing Maggi products from stores for a number of weeks following the FSSAI’s report that there were abnormal levels of lead in the products and considered unsafe. The company has taken

the ban to the high court in Mumbai where they have raised issues of “representation” of the country’s food safety laws. Nestle global chief executive Paul Bulcke is has promised the return of Maggi products to the shelves soon following the results of laboratory tests. The news has sparked protests all over the country, with children staging ‘Burn Magi’ protests. The instant noodles have been a hit in the country since 1983, voted one of India’s most trusted brands in 2014, but several states in the country have

also been testing them to trace out the presence of chemical mono-sodium glutamate, widely known as MSG.   Video on the popular food stuff Maggi noodles