Trouble for Ramdev's Patanjali? Divya Amla juice, Shivlingi Beej fail to meet quality standards

Yoga guru Ramdev owned Patanjali might get into trouble as an RTI query revealed that the company's Divya Amla juice and Shivlingi Beej had failed to meet certain quality standards.

A Right to Information (RTI) reply revealed that Haridwar's Ayurveda and Unani Office had found that the ayurveda products of substandard quality included Patanjali items.

The recent quality test failure comes after the retailing platform for the country's defence forces, the Canteen Stores Department (CSD), suspended sale of a batch of Patanjali Ayurveda's amla juice after it "failed" to clear a laboratory test at the West Bengal Public Health Laboratory.

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Uttarakhand state government's lab report said Patanajali products had less pH value than the prescribed limit, which could lead to acidity and other medical complications, the HT report stated.

The report further added that in addition to Patanjali's products, 18 samples of ayurveda drugs such as avipattikara churna, talisadya churna, pushyanuga churna, lavan bhaskar churna, yograj guggulu, laksha guggulu were also found to be substandard.

Meanwhile, Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurveda, plans to enter the restaurant business dominated by McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Subway in India.

Earlier this month, Ramdev announced Patanjali's earnings over the past year during a press briefing in Haridwar, saying the numbers would make multinational companies fret. Ramdev provided a detailed information on how the top selling products of the company had fared and said that the turnover of the company was Rs 10, 561 crore in the previous fiscal year.

Patanjali plans to double its turnover this year, Ramdev said. He re-emphasised that Patanjali's main aim was charity and introduced a new business policy of "Prosperity for Charity" for the ayurveda company.