Chennai: Nestle India, it seems, has lost all sense of hygiene and food safety. Still battling the Maggi noodles crisis in India, the company found itself in soup with a consumer finding worms in its baby food packet.
“We have received a complaint about a worm-infested packet of Cerelac. We have sent the packet for tests. We will be collecting more samples of the same Cerelac variant and will send for tests,” an official of food safety and drug administration R Kathiravan said.
The complainant, M S Sriram said, “We bought the Cerelac packet on Sunday. It was opened on Monday by my wife to feed our baby. To her shock, she found worms in the powder and called me. The expiry date on the pack was printed as February 2016. We always buy food products after checking the expiry date.”
He said, “The response I got at the toll-free number of Nestle was horrible. Hence I decided to take the issue further by making a complaint to the food safety department.”
Kathiravan said the chances of a properly packed product getting infested with worms is pretty remote. Apparently, a similar complaint was registered on June 2nd in Coimbatore, when a customer found larvae and worms in a packet of Nestle milk powder. “After that complaint, we collected samples of that product from other shops and tested them. The test results were negative as they were not contaminated.”
Nestle has released an official comment stating that they are undertaking “every effort to investigate this complaint and are cooperating fully with the authorities in this matter.”
