Srinagar, Sept. 8 -- More than a month since the rotten meat issue surfaced in Kashmir, hotel and restaurant businesses have been struggling to maintain the public trust with sales plunging to 20-30% of the normal.

Continuing its crackdown on the unsafe meat, the food safety authorities on Sunday seized 340 kg consignment of unbranded and unlabelled meat outside Srinagar Airport after a tipoff by sales tax department, while J&K police on Saturday registered two FIRs against stockist and food sale points for storing and selling rotten and expired mutton items in central district of Ganderbal.

As per official estimates, J&K, mostly the Kashmir Valley's population of 70 lakh, consumes over 600 lakh kg of mutton annually of which 350 lakh k...