India sues Nestle for nearly $100m over food safety. India's government is seeking damages of nearly $100m from Nestle India for "unfair trade practices" after the food safety regulator banned its hugely popular Maggi noodles brand in June for containing unsafe levels of lead. The government said on Wednesday that it has filed a suit with the country's top consumer court, National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), for 6,400 million rupees ($98.6m) in damages from the Indian arm of the Swiss food giant. "Our complaint is over their unfair trade practices and the court will now issue them notices to hear their response," G Gurcharan, additional secretary at the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, told AFP news agency. RELATED: Indian Maggi instant noodles 'hazardous' In April, laboratory tests ordered by some state governments found the noodles contained far higher levels of lead than legally allowed.
In a statement on Wednesday, Nestle said the company has "a stringent programme" to test the ingredients in its noodles. Source: Agencies. TIL that in 1977, a boycott was launched against Nestlé when it was found that they were giving free samples of baby formula to new mothers in Africa and then charging for it as soon as they were unable to switch back to breastfeeding. This caused high in. Nestlé boycott. A boycott was launched in the United States on July 7, 1977, against the Swiss-based Nestlé corporation. It spread in the United States, and expanded into Europe in the early 1980s.
It was prompted by concern about Nestlé's "aggressive marketing" of breast milk substitutes, particularly in less economically developed countries (LEDCs), which campaigners claim contributes to the unnecessary suffering and deaths of babies, largely among the poor.[1] Among the campaigners, Professor Derek Jelliffe and his wife Patrice, who contributed to establish the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), were particularly instrumental in helping to coordinate the boycott and giving it ample visibility worldwide. Baby milk issue[edit] History of the boycott[edit] Nestlé's marketing strategy was first written about in New Internationalist magazine in 1973 and in a booklet called The Baby Killer, published by the British NGO War On Want in 1974.
Current status of the boycott[edit] See also[edit] Nestle 'failing' on child labour abuse, says FLA report. 29 June 2012Last updated at 08:33 ET By Humphrey Hawksley BBC News Nestle signed an agreement in 2001 aimed at ending the use of child labour on cocoa farms The food company Nestle has been accused of failing to carry out checks on child labour and other abuses in part of its cocoa supply chain. A report by an independent auditor, the Fair Labor Association (FLA), says it found "multiple serious violations" of the company's own supplier code.
The code includes clauses on child labour, safety and working hours. Cocoa is the raw product that makes chocolate in a global industry worth more than $90bn (£58bn) a year. Earlier reports found that 1.8 million children in West Africa are at risk of abuse through dangerous child labour. After increasing pressure, Nestle, which is the world's biggest food company, commissioned the FLA to map its cocoa supply chain in the Ivory Coast from where almost half the world's cocoa comes.
Rampant injuries 'Top priority' They say they are studying the findings. [#20|+1505|87] TIL that Nestle actively supports child trafficking and child slavery in Africa to obtain cocoa. Several organizations have been trying to end Nestle's involvement, and in 2005 Nestle signed an ILO agreement to stop supporting child labor. Chocolate Slavery Case Against Nestlé Allowed to Proceed. Eight years after they sued Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Cargill and Nestlé for allegedly forcing them to work as child labor on a Côte d'Ivoire cocoa plantation, three young men from Mali have won a small victory – the ability to be heard in a California court.
The lawsuit was first filed as a class action to represent thousands of former plantation workers in July 2005 by the Washington-based International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) and Global Exchange, which is based in San Francisco. The non-profit organizations recorded videotape testimony from the three specific individuals who stated that they had been lured across the border between 1994 and 2000 with the promise of easy work and good wages. “Plaintiffs, aged 12 to 14 when first forced to work as child slaves, had to work 12 to 14 hour days with no pay. They often worked with guns pointed at them, and were given only the bare minimum of food scraps,” write their lawyers in the complaint. However, in April last year, when the U.S.