Meat Safety Cannot Be a One-Day Drive

The seizure and destruction of 1,600 kg of frozen buffalo meat at Budgam Railway Station should have set alarm bells ringing across Jammu and Kashmir. The Food and Drugs Administration’s subsequent inspection drive is welcome, but it also exposes an uncomfortable question: why should it take a major seizure to bring meat storage and processing units under concentrated scrutiny? The FDA says it conducted 85 inspections across the Union Territory. Sixteen improvement notices were issued for hygien

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