The 7th World Halal Forum Opens in Kuala Lumpur in April

The 7th World Halal Forum opens in Kuala Lumpur in April The global Halal food market exceeded US$800 billion last year

The 7th World Halal Forum will open at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Malaysia from April 2 to 3, 2012, with the theme 'Cultivating a Universal Halal Lifestyle,' which appeals to both Muslim and non-Muslim consumers. As always, during the annual seminar, Malaysia holds a nationwide 'Malaysia Halal Products Showcase Week,' carrying out a series of academic and cultural activities related to Halal products and holding product exhibitions and business matching sessions.

This forum is hosted by the International Halal Integrity Alliance (IHI), with content covering all aspects of Halal. In fact, Halal has indeed transcended the limits of food and consumer goods, breaking through religion, culture and geography, and covering all aspects of human life. Forum founder Haji Azmi said: 'As an industry with a huge market that remains largely untapped, the Halal industry consolidates the two Halal principles and universal Halal values, and is developing rapidly on the basis of more comprehensive values.'

This conference is the seventh held consecutively, with new progress every year, becoming a major event in the development of international Muslim assets, because this is the platform for global Halal product information exchange and provides development direction and guidance to all practitioners. The new structure of the Halal industry has formed a non-profit world civilization construction and established the International Halal Integrity (IHI) Alliance, benefiting the whole world. Hashim, CEO of the IHI corporate alliance, told reporters: 'Awareness of Halal food has now begun to extend beyond the food industry to other industries, including tourism services, and the increase in Halal friendliness has become one of the factors driving growth in the tourism and hotel industries.'

It is reported that the global Halal food market is estimated to exceed US$800 billion, while Malaysia's Halal products had an estimated market value of more than US$9.5 billion last year. In recent years, the Halal food trade market has been promising, and more and more Chinese food enterprises are actively striving for internationally recognized Halal certification, which also reflects that food safety is being widely valued.