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Indian temple ghee quality investigations

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In late July 2026, authorities in Andhra Pradesh launched Pradesh’s Factories and Boilers Department began a departmental inquiry after allegations that officials of the Factories and Boilers Department had accepted bribes to allow permit adulterated ghee from Sri Vaishnavi Dairy to be supplied to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) for its famed famous laddu. The probe also uncovered large quantities stores of expired food stored by in quick‑commerce warehouses in Tirupati, prompting leading to penalties and warnings of licence cancellation. A few days later, Around the same time, the Travancore Devaswom Board in Kerala reported that six of thirty ghee consignments supplied by from the Milma dairy cooperative cooperative, intended for the 2025‑26 Sabarimala pilgrimage pilgrimage, failed quality tests. The Devaswom Minister ordered a Crime Branch investigation and announced mandatory investigation, mandated batch‑by‑batch testing of all future ghee batches, along with and introduced a digital tracking system to monitor consignments from production to the shrine. Both incidents reflect heightened scrutiny supply chain. On 31 July, the Crime Branch probe was formally launched. The board had contracted Milma to deliver 1.65 lakh litres of food‑safety practices ghee in major Indian temples 30 batches of 5,000 litres each; only six batches were tested and all were deemed substandard. Authorities will examine whether tampering occurred before the implementation consignments left the supplier or after arrival at Sabarimala. The government reaffirmed the requirement for testing every batch and the use of stricter oversight mechanisms. digital tracking, while board president K. Jayakumar pledged that future ghee will be sourced only from pilgrim offerings and denied any board involvement in the alleged irregularities.

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