Last Sunday, Indian food-safety inspectors said they had filed a criminal complaint against Nestlé India Ltd. after finding dangerous levels of lead in a batch of Maggi 2-Minute Noodles sold in the country.
The Food Safety & Drug Administration in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh registered a case in a local court Friday, saying it found seven-times the permissible level of lead in a routine test of two dozen noodle packets.
“The level of lead we found was shocking. In fact, it’s life-threatening,” said Vijay Bahadur, the assistant commissioner for food safety in Uttar Pradesh, in an interview.
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