Yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali issued a clarification on reports of its cow ghee being substandard and said it sells cow milk and ghee only after rigorous testing to ensure quality standards. Citing media reports related to Patanjali cow ghee and the case registered under the Food Safety Act by the Food Safety Department, Pithoragarh on October 20, 2020, Patanjali termed the subsequent court order as “wrong and illegal”. A statement further said that the referral laboratory was not NABL accredited for testing cow ghee. In such a situation, the test done there is not legally acceptable. It is absurd and highly objectionable that a substandard laboratory has declared Patanjali’s best quality cow ghee as substandard.
Patanjali will appeal to Food Safety Tribunal
Patanjali further argued that the standards based on which the samples were failed were not even in force at that time, hence, using them was legally wrong. The company also questioned the retesting of the samples and claimed that the product was expired when the test was conducted. The company said that the court passed an adverse order without considering these major arguments, which is not legally justified. An appeal is being filed against this order in the Food Safety Tribunal, and we are confident that the Tribunal will rule in our favor on the basis of our case.
Court did not say that ghee is harmful
Apart from this, the company also said that nowhere in the order it is said that Patanjali cow ghee is harmful to eat. The company further said that it mentions only minor differences in the RM value of ghee from the standard. The RM value reflects the level of volatile fatty acids in the ghee (which become volatile when the ghee is heated). This is a natural process and does not affect the quality of the ghee – just as slight variations in hemoglobin are natural in the human body.
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