Srinagar, Aug. 17 -- A prominent body of hoteliers of Jammu and Kashmir, J&K Hotel and Restaurant Association (JKHARA), on Saturday demanded a halt on the entry of unlabelled and unbranded frozen meat into the union territory. Addressing a press conference, the office-bearers of the association said that they have urged the J&K government to establish two check posts immediately at entry points into Kashmir and Jammu, and any unlabelled meat should be stopped there. "It is a matter of people's health. We have appealed to the government that all the unbranded and unlabeled frozen meat and chicken coming from outside should be stopped at Lakhanpur or Qazigund (entry points into Jammu and Kashmir divisions)," said president KHARA, Babar Chowdhary. Since the beginning of August, Kashmir has been rattled by a series of seizures and confiscation of hundreds of kilograms of rotten, unsafe or stale meat or its products meant to be distributed to various eateries of the valley. The confiscation of the meat by authorities was triggered when the Food Safety Department, Srinagar, in coordination with the Drug and Food Control Organisation (DFCO), found quintals of decayed meat from an industrial estate in Zakoora on the outskirts of Srinagar on July 31. Choudhary said that some people are acquiring suspicious meat at very low rates from outside the states and sought action against those people. "There are big companies who send their products here. However, there are surprisingly some people who, according to an interview, bring meat at Rs 160 per kg from some outside state. For God sake please tell us how is that possible when we have meat here at Rs 700 per kg. Then there are profit margins, transportation charges, abnormal losses and GST, so then what actually they (vendors bringing unlabeled meat from outside) are buying and at what rate. Why haven't action been taken so far is because they would not label the packages," he said. Jammu and Kashmir police have intensified raids on vendors selling unhygienic meat across Srinagar while also identifying the operators of the firm after one of the biggest hauls of rotten meat was seized in the city's Zakoora on July 31....