Get to Know HFC in Two Minutes: Certification Fields, Strengths, and QR-Code Traceability

Get to know HFC in two minutes

I. Self-introduction

HFC - the Halal Foundation Center - is an international Halal certification platform that brings together senior Halal certification practitioners from China and abroad with more than twenty years of industry experience, tailored to the "Belt and Road" trade needs of Chinese enterprises and built for enterprises in mainland China and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.

II. Certification fields

HFC focuses on providing systematic and comprehensive Halal certification consulting, Halal internal-auditor system training, Halal production system training, Halal factory audits, and the building of international Halal industry chains for food, pharmaceutical, daily-use, and deep-processing enterprises, as well as enterprises producing complex meat-source products. HFC is composed of professionals from the food, science, chemical, and other fields, ensuring precise and professional certification consulting services for different types of products and production processes. Through guidance over the entire operation - from application materials, raw material analysis and identification, production and processing, laboratory testing, warehousing, product packaging, logistics and transportation, distribution, to consumer feedback - it safeguards enterprises'' successful entry into domestic and international Halal markets.

III. Mission and market

As a passionate and diversified Halal certification body, HFC''s mission is to promote adherence to Halal standards among all our stakeholders worldwide, and its vision is to become a Halal certification body with awareness of high Halal standards and to promote the diversified development of the Halal industry. Therefore, HFC has a deep understanding of the Halal certification systems of different schools in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Middle East Gulf region, integrating the Halal production guidance and solutions of mainstream certification brands in the Halal field, forging a Halal system that takes into account different market segments such as mass and niche markets. It is hailed as a flagship of the global Halal industry, with mature globalized foresight and comprehensive policies as well as a development system for the Halal industry.

IV. Core purpose

HFC''s core purpose is to define and establish Halal standards according to Islamic-law authority, to share and promote knowledge of Halal foods and products with consumers and raise Halal awareness, to provide professional certification consulting services covering global Halal standards for enterprise exports, and to facilitate the smooth expansion of cooperation between enterprises and Halal-product importing countries. At the same time, in response to China''s "Belt and Road" policy, it rapidly and sensitively absorbs cutting-edge international Halal solutions and builds resource sharing covering feedback channels on major global Halal certification issues.

- Strengths

- Expert team, efficient certification

HFC''s Halal certification is personally reviewed and overseen by Mufti Hammad Khursheed and Mufti Muhammad Adil Ayub, who enjoy high prestige in the industry. Only Halal products certified by a top Shariah audit team equipped with Mufti-qualified experts in Islamic-law authority can withstand the storms of the market at any time.

"Mufti" comes from Arabic and means "expounder of Islamic law" - a clerical title in Islam, that is, an official who explains religious law. Perhaps these explanations still do not fully answer your question - just how authoritative is a Mufti? To put it another way, a Mufti''s standing in the industry is comparable to that of a top national authority figure in a major public-health crisis - that should make it clear!

- World-first "QR-code full-traceability system"

HFC pioneered the world''s "QR-code full-traceability system," providing enterprises and their customers with 24-hour mobile self-service query service. By scanning the exclusive QR code on the certificate, users can view the enterprise''s certified product information, basic enterprise information, and image information of key links in the Halal production system such as raw material warehouses, production workshops, finished-product warehouses, Halal internal-auditor training, and factory audit reports.

Only transparency and openness can help consumers better identify Halal authenticity, eliminating economic losses caused by subjective human judgment and vague rules leading to pre-audit assessment errors. At the same time, it greatly reduces the cost of trust between enterprises and the market, eliminating at the source the wishful thinking of certain enterprises to forge certificates, improving enterprises'' integrity and reputation in the minds of consumers, and building a healthy, sustainable, mutually trusting, and win-win market ecosystem for the Halal industry.

- Outstanding value for money

It is worth mentioning that HFC is not a fully for-profit organization. Unlike other Halal certification bodies that charge by the number of certified products, it encourages that as long as a factory''s products fully meet the Halal standards prescribed by Islamic law, they can all be certified together, regardless of whether there is currently a need for export-market certification. Certifying one product and certifying a hundred products are the same price, avoiding the cost enterprises would otherwise incur when they later need to add product certifications as the market expands. This makes HFC''s Halal certification even more cost-effective.

This is also an important reason why SINOQUAL first recommends HFC to you when you need Halal certification. Spending less money to accomplish more - that is the way to go!

- Five-star service, complete after-sales system

SINOQUAL comes standard with senior certification specialists and a professional sales team, on call from the consulting stage, providing one-on-one guidance and explanation throughout until the certificate is obtained, giving you a 360-degree understanding of the requirements of Halal certification.

During the application stage, we have a professional document-review team to handle all your data organization and translation work, with no need to separately hire an English translator, perfectly avoiding your expense and time loss in this link.

You also need not worry about the most important factory-audit stage. SINOQUAL thoughtfully plans a detailed factory-audit process arrangement for you, helping each enterprise build a five-person professional Halal internal-audit team and easily achieve a Halal-standard factory.

After-sales is also a link we value. At your command, SINOQUAL responds at any time to needs such as adding products, modifying certificates, and extending certificates.

- Wide scope of application

HFC has now obtained recognition qualifications from most of the world''s authoritative bodies, including mutual-recognition qualifications from the International Halal Integrity Alliance, the European Certification Center, Pakistan''s highest Halal certification authority, Thailand''s official Halal body, and South Korea''s highest Halal certification body, and has become an honorary observer of the World Halal Council, better safeguarding enterprise exports to Halal-market countries in Europe and the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Southeast Asia, as well as regions such as China.

- Simplifying complexity, locally accessible

Through a top global Halal-industry R&D team, HFC translates complex Halal regulations into a complete set of transparent, highly operable local certification systems, successfully guiding Chinese enterprises that have hardly ever understood Halal certification to quickly and effectively master the core system of Halal production, thereby facilitating the smooth expansion of cooperation between enterprises and Halal-product importing countries. At the same time, based on rapidly and sensitively absorbing cutting-edge international Halal solutions and resource sharing covering feedback channels on major global Halal certification issues, it has become one of the few certification bodies in China qualified to certify complex products such as meat products, slaughterhouses, and gelatin.

After many years of certification work, HFC has contributed tremendous effort to Chinese enterprises entering the Halal market. To date, more than 400 enterprises in Asia (including Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and South Korea) have chosen HFC certificates to enter the Halal market. In the future, SINOQUAL will continue to work hand in hand with HFC to provide quality Halal certification qualifications to more enterprises.