1. Self-introduction
HFC - the Halal Foundation Center - is an international Halal certification platform that brings together senior Halal certification practitioners with over twenty years of industry experience in China and overseas, dedicated to tailoring solutions for enterprises in mainland China and the Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan regions that meet Chinese enterprises' 'Belt and Road' trade needs.
2. Certification fields
HFC focuses on providing systematic and comprehensive services to food, pharmaceutical, daily-necessities and deep-processing enterprises, as well as enterprises producing complex meat-derived products, including Halal certification consulting, Halal internal auditor system training, Halal production system training, Halal factory audits, and international Halal industry chain building. HFC is composed of professionals from food, science, chemical and other fields, ensuring precise and professional certification consulting services for different types of products and production processes, and through guidance across the entire operation process—including application materials, raw material analysis and identification, production and processing, laboratory testing, warehousing, product packaging, logistics and transportation, distribution and consumer feedback—it safeguards enterprises' successful entry into domestic and international Halal markets.
3. Mission and market
As a passionate and diversified Halal certification body, HFC's mission is to promote adherence to Halal standards among all our global stakeholders, and its vision is to become a Halal certification body with high Halal-standard awareness, promoting the diversified development of the Halal industry. Therefore, HFC has a deep understanding of the Halal certification systems of different denominations in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Middle East Gulf region, integrates Halal production guidance and solutions from mainstream Halal certification brands, and forges a Halal system catering to different market segments such as the mass and niche markets. It is hailed as the flagship of the global Halal industry, with mature global foresight, comprehensive policies, and a Halal industry development system.
4. Core purpose
HFC's core purpose is to define and establish Halal standards in accordance with Islamic law authority, to share and promote knowledge of Halal food and products among 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, responding to China's 'Belt and Road' policy, it quickly and keenly absorbs cutting-edge international Halal solutions and establishes resource sharing covering feedback channels on major global Halal certification issues.
2. Advantages
- Expert team, efficient certification
HFC's Halal certification is personally reviewed and gatekept by the industry-renowned Mufti Hammad Khursheed and Mufti Muhammad Adil Ayub. Only Halal-certified products handled by a top Shariah audit team equipped with Mufti-qualified experts of Islamic law authority can withstand the storms of the market at all times.
Mufti, from Arabic, means 'expounder of religious law,' i.e. a religious law explanation officer. Perhaps these definitions still cannot resolve your doubts about just how authoritative a Mufti is. To put it another way, a Mufti's status in the industry is comparable to that of a top authority in their field, which should make it clear.
- The world's 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 inquiry. By scanning the exclusive QR code on the certificate, users can instantly 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, eliminate economic losses caused by subjective human judgment and vague rules leading to pre-audit assessment errors. At the same time, it greatly reduces the trust cost between enterprises and the market, eliminates at the source the chance mentality of individual enterprises forging certificates, improves enterprises' integrity and reputation in consumers' minds, and builds a healthy, sustainable, mutually trusting and win-win market ecosystem for the Halal industry.
- Ultra-high cost-effectiveness
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, HFC encourages that as long as a factory's products fully comply with the Halal standards prescribed by Islamic law, they can all be certified uniformly regardless of whether there is currently a need for Halal market export certification. Certifying one product and a hundred products costs the same, avoiding additional cost when an enterprise later needs to add product certification due to market expansion, which makes HFC Halal certification more cost-effective.
This is also an important reason why SINOQUAL highly recommends HFC to those who need Halal certification. Spending less money to do more is the way to go!
- Five-star service, complete after-sales system
SINOQUAL is staffed with senior certifiers and a professional sales team, on call from the consultation stage, providing one-on-one guidance throughout until the certificate is obtained, so you understand the requirements of Halal certification from every angle.
At the application stage, we have a professional document-review team that handles all your material organization and translation work, with no need to hire a separate English translator, perfectly avoiding your money and time costs in this link.
You also need not worry about the most important factory-audit link. SINOQUAL thoughtfully plans a detailed factory-audit process for you, helping each enterprise build a five-person professional Halal internal audit team to 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
Currently, HFC has obtained recognition qualifications from most authoritative bodies worldwide, including mutual recognition with 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 authority, and has become an honorary observer of the World Halal Council, better safeguarding enterprises' exports to Muslim countries in Europe and America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, Southeast Asia and regions such as China.
- Simplifying complexity, locally accessible
Through a top global Halal industry R&D team, HFC turns 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 grasp 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 quickly and keenly 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 Halal certification bodies in China qualified to certify complex products such as meat products, slaughterhouses and gelatin.
Through years of certification work, HFC has contributed tremendous effort to Chinese enterprises entering the Halal market; currently more than 400 Asian (including Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and South Korea) enterprises have chosen HFC certificates to enter the Halal market. In the future, SINOQUAL will continue to work with HFC to provide high-quality Halal certification qualifications to more enterprises.
