Srinagar, Nov. 14 -- Around 1,600 kilograms of buffalo meat, found unfit for human consumption, was seized and subsequently destroyed at Budgam Railway Station following serious violations of food safety norms, including failure to maintain the mandatory cold-chain conditions during transportation.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Jammu and Kashmir, along with the Railway Police, railway authorities and the District Administration Budgam, carried out the enforcement action after receiving specific information about the transportation of a consignment of buffalo meat in a parcel train.
According to officials, a Food Safety Team inspected the consignment and found that adequate refrigeration or dry-ice arrangements had not been made ...