Test reports from UP food regulator started the controversy.
'Maggi noodles belong to the consumers.'
Maggi has also come on the radar of US Food and Drug Administration.
Nestle withdraws Maggi noodles in India after a MSG controversy cropped up recently.
Nestle, the world's largest food company, is seeking to defend its reputation in India after it pulled Maggi noodles from stores.
Singapore has allowed the sale of Maggi noodles manufactured in India.
Nepal is testing Nestle's Maggi noodles imported from India for lead content and may impose a ban on the popular instant snack if the level of toxic chemical is found to be above permissible limit, officials said.
Nestle India is in the process of resuming exports of its Maggi instant noodles to various global markets after it got a go ahead from Bombay High Court earlier this week.
The labs have been asked to submit their report within six weeks.
Nestle relaunched Maggi noodles on November 9.
Canadian regulator did not find any health risk in consuming Maggi noodles
Nestle says newly manufactured Maggi found safe in tests; to start retail sales this month.
Many countries found Maggi noodles to be safe for consumption.
Bachchan said he had acted in 190 Hindi films and the union government honoured him with Padma Shri, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan awards.
Nestle India on Monday said it has started production of Maggi noodles from its fourth plant at Pantnagar in Uttarakhand.
The company is listed among the top suppliers of food and beverage products for people in Chennai
About 27,420 tonnes of Maggi noodles will end up in furnaces.
Singapore says it will suspend importing noodles from India after the MSG controversy came up last week.
Nestle on Monday started a market rollout of Maggi noodles.
This time food regulators found excess presence of ash content in Maggi
The turnover of FMCG major Nestle India's has grown 2.5 folds to Rs 20,100 crore in last one decade, post the Maggi crisis in 2015, according to the company's latest annual report. At the time of crisis, Nestle India's turnover was at Rs 8,100 crore.
The new norms would clearly set the permissible limits of monosodium glutamate.
Is India's most popular instant noodles banned in Uttar Pradesh?
Suresh Narayanan, chairman and managing director of Nestl India, is set to retire on July 31 next year, marking the end of an era that began 26 years ago with the Nestl group, a multinational giant in the food and beverage space. His tenure is perhaps most famously defined by his role in reviving the Maggi noodles brand. When Narayanan stepped into leadership at Nestl India in 2015, the company was facing criticism: the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had ordered a nationwide recall of the popular Maggi noodles due to high levels of lead found in the product.
A Bihar court on Tuesday ordered that an FIR be registered against Maggi brand ambassadors Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and Preity Zinta and arrest the cinestars.
The trouble for Nestle's Maggi started in Uttar Pradesh last month and has now spread nationwide. The Food and Drug Administration has directed all states on Wednesday to get sample of India's most popular instant noodles tested for high content of lead and mono-sodium glutamate, a taste enhancer.
The state government had in the first week of June banned Maggi sale in the state after the product failed the food safety test.
Nestle India currently exports Maggi noodles to Canada, UK, Singapore and Kenya and to third parties in the US, Australia and New Zealand
The SC bench said the report of CFTRI, where the samples of Maggi noodles were tested following earlier orders of the court, will form the basis for the proceedings before the NCDRC.
Packaged food major Nestle India posted better than expected September quarter results led by strong volume growth across its key segments. While there were margin pressures due to elevated raw material costs, there could be some relief with easing prices in the near term.
The company was, however, silent on the presence of the taste enhancer monosodium glutamate in the famous 'two-minute' noodle brand.
Goa on Sunday joined several other states in banning the sale of Nestle's instant noodle brand 'Maggi' which is at the centre of a raging nationwide row over food safety concerns.
Nestle India Ltd submitted to BSE a copy of the press statement.
On October 16, Nestl received the go-ahead to resume manufacturing Maggi.
Maharashtra government on Friday decided to put a ban on Maggi noodles after some samples were found to contain lead above the permissible limit.
Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore had taken samples of the noodles for testing.
Uttarakhand's ban on Maggi to continue for some time
ITC has provided retailers with leaflets to assure customers of Yippee noodle's quality and safety standards
While Reliance Retail did not comment, sources said the company will have to follow order, at least in Delhi.
Decision to avoid investor backlash.
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