According to the Indonesian Halal Product Guarantee (JPH) Act, all products entering Indonesia for circulation and trade must be halal certified. In particular, mandatory halal certification is mandated by Presidential Decree No. 6 of 2023 for the pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceuticals...
Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is showcasing its ambition to become a global halal food hub at the China-Arab Expo on Sunday.
A Chinese delegation, including numerous high-ranking Chinese officials, visited the Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) to discuss ways to strengthen cooperation and trade. Led by Wang Heshan, Vice Governor of China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the delegation also discussed...
China's Ningxia Guanghe Textile Industry Bureau, a provincial-level agency tasked with promoting light industry, reached a cooperation agreement last Friday with Malaysia to explore global investment opportunities in the halal industry in the so-called East Coast Economic Region.
The government must be careful when implementing the Halal Product Protection Act No. 33 of 2014. The law was initially problematic. Besides the controversy over halal certification fees, another heated debate is over the halal certification of pharmaceuticals...
Companies applying for official MUIS government certification must not only ensure that their finished products do not contain a certain level of alcohol, but must also pay special attention to the use of brewed alcohol and chemically synthesized alcohol during the production process.
The 2023rd World Halal Food Council (WHFC) Congress was held in Dubai, UAE, with great success. The congress attracted 80 participants from 30 halal certification bodies and 25 countries. This...
LPPOM MUI, a professional certification body (LSP), as a trustee of the Indonesian Ulema (MUI), is increasingly prepared to face the 2014 UU 33 on guaranteeing halal products (U...
On December 21, 2019, at the Halal Technology Conference in Thailand, HFC Vice President Tahir Iqbal met with the head of the Korea Halal Authority (KHA)...
Jacob Star's Halal Forum, held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center on June 27, 2014, with the theme "How to Expand the Halal Market of 1.9 Billion Muslims Worldwide," made headlines in the China Pharmaceutical News.
According to market research firm Euromonitor, the halal label market is rapidly developing and is expected to grow by a quarter between now and 2020. Halal labeling is driving demand for halal meat products in the Asia-Pacific region...
The Global Islamic Economy Development Report (SGIE), jointly produced by DIEDC and Reuters, points out that as of now, due to the continuous increase in various reports, the global spending of the Muslim population in various sectors was slightly less than 2% in 2015...
Today, Jacob's Star shares an article about the rapid growth of the halal food production industry in Canada. Outside of China, halal-certified foods are surprisingly common, even to the point where, like the author of this article,...
The recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Türkiye’s Halal Certification Agency and Pakistan’s National Accreditation Council (PNAC) will prove to be a catalyst for developing unified standards for halal items in the country in line with international standards.
Seven official certification bodies have conducted limited oversight of more than 400 halal certification bodies worldwide and pointed out that the halal food certification industry has limitations in management. There are 32 official SMIIC-registered standard certification bodies that have limited halal standards.
