Jammu, Oct. 29 -- Share Tweet Share Dr. Siddhartha Ghosh, & Ammar Mehdi Consumers have good reason to be concerned with the strange ingredients used in Kashmir's hotels, restaurants, bakeries and packaged foods. There's also cause for concern with the irregular quality of sweets and branded candies, which are popular at marriages and other social gatherings. We should not compromise the health of the public. According to data presented in Parliament, food samples collected in the UT of Jammu & Kashmir between 2020-21 and 2024-25 numbered 41,717 of which 6,202 were reported as non-conforming to prescribed standards, which is about 14.9 percent. These are UT-wide figures and do not pertain to the Kashmir Valley alone. Non-conforming to pres...