A regulator in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh said in May it had found lead above permissible levels in a sample of noodles, prompting denials from Nestle, which says it has carried out hundreds of its own tests, and a debate on India’s safety standards and testing...
Nestle has been in the middle of India’s worst meals scare in a decade after a regulator within the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in May stated it discovered extra lead in a pattern of the agency’s well-liked Maggi noodles.
A few days after taking over as the managing director of Nestle India, Suresh Narayan sat down with CNBC-TV18’s Shereen Bhan, and explained that his “first mandate was to bring Maggi noodles back in the market” and that his company would work overtime to make...