Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 24: Taking suo moto cognizance of media reports on the consumption of adulterated and carcinogenic food items in Kashmir at an alarming proportion, Jammu and Kashmir High Court today sought response from the Government by next in this regard.
The Division Bench of Justice MH Attar and Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey issued notice to the Government which was accepted by Senior Additional Advocate General N A Beigh on behalf of the Government and court sought response from him in light of the media reports with regard to poor eatables and infrastructure, manpower and mechanism to check the safety of the foods.
The suo moto cognizance has been taken by the court after various reports coming in media for the last few days about the slackness of Govt in checking the poor consumption of foods in the valley.
It has been reported in various press reports that food testing laboratory in the valley lacks equipment, infrastructure and manpower to check the adulterated consumption of food in valley. It is said that the adulterated food is leading to multiple diseases among people, including cancer whose rate had doubled in the valley in the past less than a decade.
The lone food testing laboratory (FTL) of the valley situated in Srinagar is said to be having ancient and outdated equipments while old methods are put into practice to test samples of foods.
About the food items like oils, milk etc consumed by general masses according to the reports are contaminated and such kind of adulteration have flooded the markets of the valley as there is no mechanism in place to check the purity of eatables.
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