Minister for Milk and Dairy Development T Mano Thangaraj on Monday dismissed claims that there is a decline in milk procurement at Aavin, low quantity of milk in sachets, and poor quality of plastic was being used for packaging. He said a few people not affiliated with the diary industry are spreading falsehoods to promote private brands.

“Aavin’s dairy milk procurement has reached 30 lakh litres. We are implementing various measures to increase it further. As on Monday, we are supplying 14.82 lakh litres of milk to Chennai,” he told the press. The minister clarified that the weight of a 500 ml Aavin sachet has not been reduced, and that the milk sachets are automatically filled using machines.

“Aavin compensates all franchise retail outlets (FROs) for damaged milk sachets in proportion to the quantity of milk supplied to them, as per the industry norms. Isolated instances of damaged milk packets are being used to spread false claims about the weight loss. We rigorously monitor the compensation requested by FROs for damaged milk,” said Thangaraj, noting that the micron level of plastic used for milk packaging has also not been reduced.