nestle sugar controversy

Amid worldwide worries about sugar in baby food, India's FSSAI has affirmed that no new regulations banning added sugars will be introduced. The guidelines from 2020 still allow certain added sugars, keeping pace with international norms.

Shares of Nestle India dropped by 5.4% due to controversy over adding sugar to baby food products sold in India but not in Europe and UK. The revelation came to light when "Public Eye," a Swiss investigative organization, and IBFAN (International Baby Food Action Network) sent samples of Nestle's baby food products marketed in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to a Belgian laboratory for analysis.

Under attack for high sugar content in baby food Cerelac sold in the country, the Swiss FMCG major is planning to launch the popular infant formula with “no added sugar” in India. The company has already been working to minimize it, but this effort will now gain momentum, according to Nestle’s chairman and managing director Suresh Narayanan who spoke here on Monday.

Nestlé's baby food in Africa, Cerelac, is found to contain alarmingly high levels of added sugar, up to 7.5 grams per serving. This contrasts sharply with sugar-free variants sold in Europe. African organizations are demanding an immediate halt to these practices, citing WHO warnings about sugar's impact on infant health and obesity risks.

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In fresh worry for Nestle, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found higher than permissible limit of lead in two random samples of Maggi collected from stores in the city and all the four packets had traces of monosodium glutamate (MSG), an artificial taste enhancer.

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