Patanjali Amla juice found unsafe

Kolkata April 25: The Yoga guru Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved's amla juice has "failed" to clear a laboratory test, Defence Ministry sources said

While going to matter, The reason is due to which the Canteen Stores Department, the retailing entity selling consumer goods to armed forces, has suspended its sale.

From this perspective, the company said the amla juice is a medicinal product unlike other juices sold in the market and that it is absolutely safe for human consumption.

Meanwhile, the Defence Ministry sources said a show cause notice has been served on the company after the juice "failed" the test carried out at West Bengal Public Health Laboratory, Kolkata.



The sources also said as per procedure, CSD has immediately suspended the sale of the particular batch of the item and sent a show-cause notice to the company to examine the deviations and explain about them.

They said "further action" will be taken on receipt of a reply from the firm.

The CSD had sent samples of 'Amla Juice' having index no. 85417 and batch No. GH1502 to the laboratory in Kolkata, they said.