New Delhi: The Maggi controversy is likely to be a stepping stone in the evolution of country's packaged and processed food industry, which could result in better labelling, packaging and testing norms for the entire sector, a Nomura report said.

"We see the entire controversy as a stepping stone in the evolution of India's packaged and processed food industry," Manish Jain and Anup Sudhendranath of Nomura said in a research note, adding similar tests are likely to be conducted on other similar products and companies.