Srinagar, Aug. 12 -- PDP leader Zuhaib Yousf Mir on Tuesday issued a strong call for expanded food safety measures in Jammu and Kashmir amid the ongoing rotten meat scandal that has shocked the region.

in a statement issued ,He said the substandard, rotten, unbranded, and stale meat scam unfolding in Kashmir evokes profound alarm, underscoring the moral degradation plaguing society. Over the past 15-16 years, such practices have directly fueled the rise of lifestyle diseases and even fatal ones like cancer.

Mir commended the government's stringent actions against these morally bankrupt perpetrators, bolstered by fatwas from religious scholars and relentless pursuits by food safety officers. Beyond the current raids on rotten meat, he ur...