News Maggi banned due to high quantities of MSG and lead. Update - Ban Lifted

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Australia suspends import of Maggi Noodles from India

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Australia has temporarily suspended import of Maggi noodles from India as the popular instant snack has come under mounting scrutiny over food safety concerns.

The Department of Agriculture of the Australian government has issued a ‘holding order’ against Maggi as a precautionary measures on June 11.

"This is a precautionary measure in response to reports of levels of lead that are potentially non-compliant with the permissible levels in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Code)," Australian Department of Agriculture said in the notice.

This would apply to all Maggi noodles imported to Australia from India, it said.

The Department of Agriculture ‘will inspect and test consignments for the presence of lead and compliance with Standard 1.4.1 of the Code’.

Maggi has also come on the radar of US Food and Drug Administration which has taken samples of the instant noodles brand for testing.

As per Nestle's global website, Nestle India currently exports small quantities of Maggi noodles to the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Singapore and Kenya.

On June 5, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India had banned Maggi directing Nestle to immediately withdraw and recall all nine variants of Maggi instant noodles from market.


Read more at: Australia suspends import of Maggi Noodles from India - Rediff.com Business
 

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Nestle India sees more than Rs 32o Cr hit from Maggi ban

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Nestlé India said it would destroy Rs 320 crore worth of Maggi instant noodles, which the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India banned recently after it found the product contained lead and monosodium glutamate beyond permissible limits.

Nestle has been battling its worst-ever branding crisis in India since a regulator in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh found monosodium glutamate (MSG) and excess lead in a sample of its hugely popular noodles.

In a filing to stock exchanges on Monday, Nestlé India said Maggi noodles worth Rs 210 crore were being withdrawn from the market and destroyed even as another Rs 110 crore worth of finished and related material stock remained at its factories and distribution centres.

"There will be additional costs to take into account, for example bringing stock from the market, transporting stock to destruction points," Nestle said in a statement.

About 27,420 tonnes of Maggi noodles, under recall process, will end up in furnaces of cement plants across the country -- a mode that Nestlé India has chosen to destroy the stock.

Till last Friday, Nestlé India has managed to recall 11,500 tonnes of the product and destroy 169 tonnes by putting them in such furnaces.

“The actual recall process of Maggi noodles from the market is an immensely complex process and a mammoth activity, the largest in the history of Nestle,” said Luca Fichera, executive vice-president (supply chain) at Nestlé.


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