Overview
- Police and laboratory reports confirm ethylene glycol contamination that caused acute renal failure and subsequent multi-organ failure in victims.
- The toll has reached 14, and six people remain under treatment at hospitals in Rajamahendravaram.
- Investigators linked the supply to Varalakshmi Milk Centre in Narasapuram, which delivered to about 100–106 households in Lalacheruvu’s Chowdeswaranagar and Swaroopanagar.
- Authorities say a damaged storage freezer leaked coolant into milk and curd, and customers had reported a bitter taste before the unit was repaired.
- The vendor, Addala Ganeswararao, has been arrested and remanded, the dairy has been sealed, and multi-agency teams have sent product and biological samples to multiple labs for further analysis.