After pesticide scare, prasad at Sabarimala made sans cardamom

The Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) that runs the Sabarimala temple in Kerala has determined to provide cardamom-less “aravana payasam”, foremost prasad of the temple, after the excessive court docket ordered the shrine to not distribute a batch of payasam that contained pesticide-laced cardamom seeds.

“We’ll clear all machines and make payasam with out cardamom in the intervening time. From Thursday onwards, we’ll distribute payasam sans cardamom and efforts are on to acquire natural cardamom,” stated TDB president Ok Ananthagopan.

Exams carried out at two labs of Meals Security Authority within the state capital and Meals Security and Commonplace Authority of India in Kochi had discovered excessive traces of pesticide within the prasad.

The checks had been carried out on the instructions of the excessive court docket, final week, after many devotees complained about its high quality. Each labs, in its report within the court docket, later confirmed the presence of chemical substances past permissible limits. Subsequently, the excessive court docket on Wednesday ordered the shrine board to not distribute the batch of payasam that contained pesticide-laced seeds.