TIRUPATI: The TDP govt in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday made public laboratory evaluation of the cow ghee samples equipped to the Tirumala temple belief for making its well-known Tirupati laddu prasadam in the course of the time period of the YSRC govt. It revealed the presence of international fat together with lard (clarified pig fats), tallow (beef fats) and fish oil.
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The samples additionally contained fat from vegetable sources like coconut, linseed, rapeseed and cottonseed.The evaluation was carried out on July 23 after the federal government obtained complaints of change in style of the laddu prasadam.
Chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had sparked a serious controversy on Wednesday when he advised NDA allies that animal fats had been discovered within the ghee for the laddus when YSRC was in energy. YSRC had reacted angrily, denying the allegations and claiming it to be considered one of Naidu’s political stunts.
The evaluation by the Centre for Evaluation and Studying in Livestock and Meals (CALF) of the Nationwide Dairy Growth Board (NDDB), nevertheless comes with a caveat – there may be possibilities of false constructive ends in sure circumstances. The report lists a number of situations the place a consequence might go mistaken, together with in instances like overfeeding cows with feed wealthy in vegetable oils, underfeeding cows or the milk being subjected to technological remedies like elimination of ldl cholesterol.
The report is silent whether or not the adulterants have been intentionally added or crept in by means of feeding situations and different elements.
Naidu’s allegation and the NDDB’s report have shocked hundreds of thousands of devotees of Lord Venkateswara throughout the globe because the Tirupati laddus are thought-about Maha Prasadam and carry a excessive sentimental worth.
The TDP govt had in June appointed senior IAS officer J Syamala Rao as the brand new government officer of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) which manages the temple advanced. As a part of streamlining measures, an inquiry was ordered into the alleged poor high quality, style and texture of the laddus.
TTD constituted an professional committee to look into the standard of the prasadam. The members included Dr B Surendranth, former principal scientist of the Nationwide Dairy Analysis Institute, Vijayawada, Bhaskar Reddy (dairy professional), Prof B Mahadevan (IIM-Bangalore) and Dr G Swarnalatha from the Telangana Veterinary College
Aside from suggesting a number of measures to TTD to revive the style and high quality, the committee additionally despatched samples of the ghee to NDDB, Gujarat. The lab stories, issued in July, confirmed the presence of international fat. TTD returned the ghee shares equipped by AR Dairy Meals, Dindigul, in Tamil Nadu and blacklisted the contractor. Then, TTD chosen Karnataka Milk Federation to produce the ghee.
TTD sources stated that whereas cow ghee was procured from the blacklisted contractor at Rs 320 per kg, the Tirupati belief is now procuring ghee at Rs 475 per kg from the Karnataka federation.
TTD prepares and distributes about 3 lakh laddus to the devotees on daily basis at Tirumala. Yearly, the belief earns round Rs 500 crore from laddu gross sales alone.
