Nestle said its products were compliant with regulations. (Reuters pic) NEW DELHI: India’s food regulator has issued notices to Nestle India Ltd and Hindustan Unilever Ltd for allegedly making misleading claims regarding nutrition supplements, extending its nationwide safety crackdown.
Nestle’s “resource renal vanilla flavour powder” was intended as a dietary supplement to manage a medical condition, but the company neither sought prior approval nor displayed a label to indicate whether the product was vegetarian or non-vegetarian, according to an X post by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India.
The regulator also said Hindustan Unilever’s ‘Horlicks’s Mother’s Plus Kesar 400 g BIB’ made misleading claims over “happy birth weight”, while its ‘Horlicks Women’s Plus’ products listed “improves bone health”, “healthy muscles”, “no added sugar” as benefits.
