Haryana: Baba Ramdev is back in the news and like most of the times; for all the wrong reasons. In the latest incident, insects have been found inside a packet of his Patanjali Atta noodles by a customer in Haryana.
The incident was reported from Narwana in the Jind region of Haryana where a customer brought the packet from a Swadeshi store.
One Vinod Kumar bought the Patanjali atta noodles packet containing worms from an authorised shop selling Patanjali products which was situated in Model Town road area on Thursday. “I had gone to purchase half kg of ghee from the shop. However, I bought a packet of atta noodles apart from desi ghee and biscuits as I thought the noodles were healthy. When I cooked the noodles the next day, I found dead worms. When I looked inside the packet which still had some noodles left, there were some worms inside as well,” Kumar said. “I immediately reached the Patanjali outlet to register my complaint about the packet,” Kumar added.
The launch of Patanjali atta noodles had garnered media attention as it came at a time when Nestle India’s popular instant noodles Maggi also made it back to shop shelves after a ban. Yoga guru Ramdev had launched the product with the aim to capture the noodle market by branding his product as healthier as and more affordable than other instant noodles available to consumers.
Maggi was banned for five months after some samples were found to have dangerous levels of monosodium glutamate and lead. However, it made it back to shop shelves after a clean chit from labs.
