The canteen stores department (CSD), the retailing platform for india’s defence forces, has stopped the sale of Patanjali’s Ayurved’s amla juice after receiving an adverse state-laboratory test report on the product that had helped establish the company’s  achievement in the consumer business.

“The batch was tested at the central food lab in kollata and was decleared unfit for consumption. Patanjali has withdrawn amla juice from all army canteens,” said two officials privy to the development.

The referral govt. laboratory in Kolkata is the same agency that detected lead levels above exact limits and the presence of MSG in the samples of nestle maggi noodles 2 years ago. The test report later caused consumer backlash, prompting nestle to to out the brand across india, and file legal petition against nestle to seek a judicial review on the order by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India(FSSAI).

This is not the first time of the 5000-crore patanjali ayurved running into trouble with regulations over its claims. It is already pulled up for selling noodles and pasta without the relevant licenses. Last year, FSSAI directed its central licensing authority to issue a show cause notice to patanjali over its edible –oil advertisements that were allegedly misleading for all.