Thiruvananthapuram: The food safety department's order to stop the sale and distribution of unniyappam as prasadam at Sabarimala was 'most inappropriate and a decision which has crossed all the limits', said devaswom minister Kadakampally Surendran.
The order, on the ground that they were not fit for human consumption, comes at the fag-end of the pilgrim season with just another two weeks left for Makaravilaku, which raises suspicion about the very motive behind it, the minster told reporters here on Tuesday. "The appams are made of rice and ghee brought by the pilgrims in their irumudikkettu, which definitely will be of high quality. And they are prepared strictly adhering to the food safety standards," he said.
The minister said that the restrictions were being imposed based on a high court verdict in the past, which said not to use items brought by pilgrims in their irumudikkettu to make prasadam. "The government has directed the Travancore Devaswom Board to approach the high court to get the order revoked. Besides, we have appealed to the food safety commissioner to withdraw the restriction," he said.
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