12,000 Kgs Of Unsafe Meat Seized In A Week

In the ongoing crackdown against unsafe food practices, authorities have seized and destroyed nearly 12,000 kilograms of unsafe and decomposed frozen meat across Jammu and Kashmir over the past few weeks.

- Agencies

According to officials of the Food Safety Department said that the seized stock included over 8,000 kgs in Kashmir and more than 3,000 kgs in Jammu, much of it found unbranded, improperly stored or dumped on roadsides.

“The consignments were declared unfit for human consumption and subsequently destroyed,” the officials said.

As per the officials, the operation has also led to the sealing of two establishments and the registration of cases against the offenders. “Wherever we found unsafe or de-