As a leading domestic brand of fresh-stewed bird's nest, Beijing Xiaoxiandun Biotechnology Co., Ltd. carefully selects bird's nest from Malaysia and Indonesia. With the original aspiration of making it easier for more people to enjoy a bowl of fresh, nutritious and delicious bird's nest, it insists on producing bird's nest as good as one slow-simmered in a stewing pot. Its product sales have led the country for five consecutive years, driving bird's nest nourishment into a new era of fresh-stewed bird's nest.
As an important part of Chinese-style nourishment, bird's nest has a history of more than 600 years, and several ancient Chinese texts record its history of consumption and nutritional value. Only the nests built by swiftlets are the prized nourishing bird's nest. A bird's nest is not the home of the swiftlet, but its nursery bed; once the chicks grow up, they fly away from the nest, and the nest is no longer used, so the swiftlets' living environment must not be damaged when harvesting bird's nest. Only after seven processing steps can bird's nest reach export standards.
The certifier in charge of the Xiaoxiandun Halal certification project at our company, considering that bird's nest as a beauty and nourishing delicacy has been sought after and loved by consumers around the world and that its audience keeps expanding, recommended the HFC Halal certification certificate, which has authoritative mutual-recognition credentials including the International Halal Integrity Alliance, the European Certification Centre, Pakistan's highest Halal certification authority, Thailand's official Halal body, and South Korea's highest Halal certification body. This laid the foundation for the future export of Xiaoxiandun's two fresh-stewed bird's nest products - the sugar-free type and the rock-sugar type - to Halal-consumer countries in Europe and the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Southeast Asia.
Currently, the domestic COVID-19 situation has become tense again, and all industries have been affected to varying degrees. Many enterprises' Halal, Kosher and Vegan certification plans have therefore stalled. To this end, SINOQUAL provides enterprises with a full online certification guidance service experience, and the on-site factory audit can also offer convenient video audits according to the enterprise's actual situation, greatly saving certification costs, further accelerating the progress of obtaining certificates, and reducing the losses caused by work stoppages and production halts due to the pandemic. For this Xiaoxiandun certification project, the certifier also made the following summary.
1. Were there any key or difficult points in this certification?
Any product involving animals requires attention during the Halal certification process. As a derivative of swiftlets, bird's nest - the swiftlet's saliva - is Halal. The Islamic law committee had previously approved this, and the supplier also provided the corresponding bird's nest raw material certificate.
2. What should be noted in a video factory audit?
We confirm the timing of the video audit with the client and the certification body in advance. Depending on the client's situation, we can simulate the audit with the client beforehand to improve the pass rate of the actual video audit. If the body requests supplementary materials, the factory must submit them promptly to avoid delaying the issuance of the certificate.