Meet the Man Behind The Maggi Row

BANGALORE: In May 2015, Indian Food Safety Regulators from the State of Uttar Pradesh have claimed that samples of Maggi 2 Minute Noodles were found to contain traces of lead beyond permissible limits and added monosodium glutamate, reports The Indian Express.

V K Pandey, district food officer in Barabanki who made the first stride almost 15 months ago against Nestle's Maggi Noodles that is currently confronting a torrential slide of tests for professedly spurning nourishment wellbeing standards.

Pandey is currently being called over as a legend in the media and says he's making a decent attempt to maintain a strategic distance from the limelight.

The Maggi noodles samples taken from Uttar Pradesh state of India were tested for the amount of the lead content and it was found to be exceeding human health safety limits. The permissible amount of Lead in any food material is 0.01 ppm while the Maggi noodles samples were found to contain 17 ppm by the FSDA, Lucknow.

According to Pandey, “Whatever I did was as a public servant. I have nothing against Maggi, and now it is just one of the many court cases we have to deal each year. The courts will look into the matter, I do not want unnecessary tension,” reports The Indian Express.

As per UP authority, it all began with a "normal check" on March 10, 2014, when Pandey led a group that gathered specimens of Maggi noodles from a retailer in Barabanki.

After sixteen days, the Government Regional Public Analyst Laboratory in Gorakhpur, one of the state's six nourishment testing labs, affirmed the vicinity of monosodium glutamate (MSG), a taste enhancer that authorities said is not recorded on the noodle packets.

At this defining moment, the organization was sent a notification and inquired as to whether it needed to appeal and on July 22, 2014, when Nestle filed an appeal, the Maggi tests were sent to Central Food Laboratory, Kolkata

The greatest allowed measure of lead can be 2.5 sections for each million (ppm), however in the specimens, it ended up being 17.2 ppm, which made it a dangerous food., said by Ram Araj Maurya, additional commissioner, UP Food Safety and Drug Administration Department.

On 3 June 2015, New Delhi Government banned the sale of Maggi in New Delhi stores for 15 days because it found lead and monosodium glutamate in the eatable beyond permissible limit.

Some India's biggest retailers like Future Group, Big Bazaar, Easyday and Nilgiris have imposed a nationwide ban on Maggi.

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