Nestle’s Maggi food safety Crisis:

Maggi instant noodles, christened as Maggi 2-Minute Noodles, was launched in

India in 1983 and quickly became a favorite snack for the urban Indians.
The seeds of the crisis that shook the foundations of Nestle India were laid in a
small town of Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh.
In March 2014, Sanjay Singh, a Food Safety & Drug Administration inspector of
Uttar Pradesh government noticed a label that claimed “no added MSG
(monosodium glutamate)” on the bright-yellow packets of Maggi 2-minute
noodles in a shop called Easyday.
In June 2014, samples of Maggi noodles were sent to the Central Food
Laboratory, Kolkata for testing. Although it took almost a year for the results to
come, as the report were made available only in April 2015, the report clearly
stated the presence of not just MSG but also the presence of one more harmful
ingredient ‘lead’ beyond the permissible limits. Lead was found to be 17.2 ppm
(parts per million) i.e thousand times more than what Nestle had claimed.