Srinagar, Aug. 10 -- A rotten-meat scandal was uncovered in Jammu and Kashmir, which has caused chaos and shaken consumers in the union territory as authorities destroyed more than 3500 kilograms of adulterated varieties of meat across the valley, raising fears over its adverse impact.

In its crackdown on rotten and adulterated meat in the Kashmir valley, the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has seized and destroyed more than 3500 kg of decomposed and unlabelled meat in recent days, officials said.

On July 31, 1200 kgs of putrefied meat were seized by the FDA from a trader in an industrial estate on the outskirts of the city here.

Following the recovery, the authorities intensified their crackdown, and days later, in a raid in the L...