Health is very much important for everyone. But now a days everything have become poisionous and unhealthy.They say you are what you eat. Thats true,the food we take in decides our health and structure. If that were true, most of us would have been Maggi by now. We all are aware of the scrutiny Maggi is going under for the high levels of lead it contains. But it is not the only product that has been in trouble. There have been similar cases where a food product landed in trouble for some serious, and sometimes some very bizarre reasons. Lets see what are those reasons.

Here are 12 food brands that got into serious trouble for not living up to quality standards:

Red Bull

Reason : Red Bull doesn’t ‘give wings’, proved a $13 million lawsuit. Benjamin Careathers, a regular consumer of Red Bull sued the company for false advertising, arguing that after 10 years drinking Red Bull, he neither had wings nor any enhanced athletic or intellectual performance. Surprisingly, the company lost and pledged to refund $10 to any US customer who bought the drink since 2002 and agreed to amend future advertising.

Coca-Cola

Reason : Pesticides were found in Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo soft drinks. In 2006, Coca-Cola and Pepsi were banned across several Indian states after an environmental pressure group said that they found pesticides in drinks produced by the Indian arms of the companies.

Haldiram’s

Reason : Haldiram’s is in trouble because high levels of pesticides, mold and bacteria were found in its products. According to US FDA, products by the company are harmful because they contain high levels of pesticides, mold and bacteria. The report said that Haldiram’s cookies, biscuits and wafers as ‘filthy, putrid or decomposed- otherwise unfit’.

Cadbury

Reason : Cadbury was in trouble because worms were found in their very popular Dairy Milk.In October 2003, customers in Mumbai complained about finding worms in Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolates. The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration seized the stocks manufactured at Cadbury’s Pune plant. The company had to spend a lot on the packaging and its image to restore what it lost.

Samosa

Reason : Samosa was banned in Somalia by an extremist Islamic Group because according to them, it is associated with the Christian Trinity! As ridiculous as it sounds, in 2011, Al-Shabaab, an extremist Islamic group ordered a ban on samosas on a loudspeaker because apparently samosa’s triangular shape is too closely associated with the Christian trinity.

Tata Starbucks’

Reason : Tata Starbucks’ 32 ingredients rejected on assessment of risk/safety in India. Recently, 32 ingredients of this coffee-chain were ruled out in India. Among the rejects were famous add-ons like caramel sauce and hazelnut syrup. The company said that they can deal with the rejections without any trouble as the replacements have already been found.

Kinder Joy

Reason : Kinder Egg Surprise, also known as Kinder Joy, was banned in the US because it has a ‘non-nutritive object embedded in it’ which caused choking. The US’s  1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act contains a section highlighting that a confectionery product with a non-nutritive object, partially or totally embedded within it, cannot be sold within the United States. There were cases of children choking on the toys which is why they were banned for a long time.

McDonald’s

Reason : McDonald’s got into trouble when it served beef flavoured french fries to Hindus in the US. A lawsuit was filed against the food-chain in 2010 by a group of vegetarians and some Hindus for adding beef flavouring to its french fries. The practice was later discontinued and the company had to apologize for it.

Kellogg’s

Reason : Kellogg’s recalled 28 million boxes of cereals due to a chemical leakage in 2010. In 2010,  the company recalled four popular cereals due to a strange ‘smell’ from the packaging boxes, which was due to a compound leakage. These four varieties included in this controversy were Corn Pops, Froot Loops, Apple Jacks and Honey Smacks.

Quaker Oats

Reason : Quaker Oats experimented by feeding radioactive oats to mentally ill kids. In 1950, Quaker Oats got involved in what was the most shocking experiment ever. The company along with MIT and Harvard University fed radioactive oats to mentally ill kids for a research. The results of the research were used for an advertising campaign.

Burger King

Reason : Burger King got into trouble when horse-meat was found in its beef samples. In 2013, the leading food chain landed into controversies because its products had horse-meat in UK. The company denied the charges initially but later blamed its suppliers for the fiasco.

Nestle

Reason : Nestle was in trouble for unethical publicity of unhealthy baby milk alternatives. The company was accused of selling unhealthy alternatives for baby milk, by using unethical publicity tricks. In 1976, the company won a related lawsuit but had to face a boycott in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.The boycott remains in some parts even though the company claims that the product is fit by every standard.

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