Many countries found Maggi noodles to be safe for consumption.
Use of non-vegetarian ingredients and labelling them vegetarian would offend religious and cultural sentiments of strict vegetarians and interfere in their right to freely profess their religion, the Delhi high court has said.
Lack of clarity on whether manufacturing bans in Punjab, Uttarakhand, Himachal, Goa and Karnataka still in place
Is India's most popular instant noodles banned in Uttar Pradesh?
Companies from Nestle and ITC to Hindustan Unilever and Patanjali have pledged to reduce use of unhealthy ingredients by five to 50 per cent
The lab has 18 scientists.
Nestle on Monday started a market rollout of Maggi noodles.
Regulator's to-do list includes guidelines on traceability mechanism, food recall portal.
Test reports from UP food regulator started the controversy.
Parle Agro, which sells beverages such as Frooti in small tetra packs, has already started importing paper straws. Dabur India, which sells its fruit juices in tetra packs under the brand Real, is also considering importing paper straws.
60,000 Maggi kits sold out in 5 minutes on Snapdeal!
The advertisement is unnecessarily misleading the consumer and also derogatory and denigrating to the oil industry, SEA said
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday received Bhutan's highest civilian award, the 'Order of the Druk Gyalpo', making him the first foreign Head of the Government to receive the honour.
Experts believe market launches can now happen seamlessly and quickly if FSSAI is removed from the process.
Nestl India is preparing a blueprint for a possible relaunch.
Apart from Maggi noodles, many other products can be tested for health issues.
Nestle India Ltd submitted to BSE a copy of the press statement.
Five of twelve labs lack accreditation from National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laborataries.
Nestle relaunched Maggi noodles on November 9.
The FSSAI said Patanjali noodles, from the stable of entities owned by yoga guru Ramdev, had not been approved.
Out of total 5,842 registered water packaging units, 1,495 units have both BIS and FSSAI licences, while 4,347 units have only BIS certification.
Nestle now has less than two weeks to convince the regulator why product approval for its noodles should not be withdrawn
How can 'first food' meet the challenge posed by factory-made 'fast foods' which are backed by marketing money and often come with 'traditional taste' tags attached to them? The first step would be to preserve knowledge about first foods, says Dinesh C Sharma.
ASCI and Ayush ministry get down to monitoring print and television ads of ayurvedic, unani, homeopathic and yoga and naturopathy practitioners.
A huge stock of Maggi noodles was destroyed by Nestle after the ban was imposed by the food regulators.
Reputed brands must learn few lessons from the ongoing Maggi controversy.
Nestle is sure to go for a relaunch of the noodles soon enough with an advertising blitz,
It was a disturbing message in the sense that the regulatory framework is not clear enough and is not always applied in a convincing manner.
Nearly 84 per cent of the commonly available bread forms contain cancer-causing chemicals.
Weak demand from the poultry sector has resulted in a sharp decline in feed prices too, with both soybean and maize prices falling by nearly 25 per cent in the past two months. The poultry market consumes around half of soybean and maize production in India.
The Indian operation of the Swiss food group employs more than 5,000.
The new regime aims to bring in ease of doing business, as the NITI Aayog has proposed to do away with the need to have manufacturing licences to register medical devices or to get a certificate of compliance.
Nestle was perceived as being feeble in its defence.
The meetings were a sign of crisis management.
The fatality rate is down to 3.1 per cent and the recovery rate has improved to 37.5 per cent, he said.
'We have done what we needed to do on behalf of the consumers'.
Neslte which did brisk business in India, with 30 per cent revenue coming from Maggi alone, has not taken a big hit.
There were 52 launches during January-June 2015, compared with 29 in the year-ago period and 32 in 2013.
Pointing at regulation of environment sector as a case in point, Goyal said the sector suffered due to "over regulation as regulators are not able to justify many decisions"
