Hyderabad, June 17 -- The Mysore-based Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), will help maintain the highest standards of quality and nutritional value of all food items and sacred prasadams of Lord Venkateshwara temple at Tirumala in Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati district, officials said on Tuesday.

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which administers the Tirumala temple, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with CFTRI to this effect in the wake of the recent controversy over the alleged supply of adulterated ghee used in the preparation of the sacred Tirupati laddu during the previous regime.

The agreement was formalised during the Resea...