The conference was inaugurated by Deputy Prime Minister Olarn
Chaipravat, with a keynote address by ASEAN Secretary-General Dr. Surin
Pitsuwan, on “From Islamic Finance to Halal Products.” Moreover, a
seminar was held on “Helal Certification and Cooperation,” “Halal
Business and Islamic Finance,” and “Current Halal Research."
Bangkok Global Halal Conference 2008
Halal laboratory to open in Koronadal
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in Mindanao’s industry met yesterday for the creation of a Mindanao
Halal Food Industry Development Plan, a three-year road map on the
development of the halal industry. The plan which started this
month until July 2009 will cover specific strategies, targets,
programs and projects on halal, and plot areas of cooperation with
related industries like agriculture, food processing, manufacturing,
halal ingredients, plus branding and promotion.
Plans to make HID corporation (HDC) into a certification body
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Though the Halal Industry Development Corp. has definitely been up and running much longer than 7 months, as mentioned in this article, their taking over the Halal certification from JAKIM is probably closer to that length of time. HDC is creating a new model for how a government can manage the Halal industry in their country and they are certainly going through lots of start up problems with no example to follow, and having to figure it out as they go along. This is made even more difficult by the fact that they are also trying to enter the international Halal market offering Halal certification. Not an easy task when even people in their own country are not sure who they are and what they are doing.
Now it looks like the Philippines are trying to follow their example for their own development of the Halal industry in Mindanao.
Now it looks like the Philippines are trying to follow their example for their own development of the Halal industry in Mindanao.
Zahid Supports Effort To End Conflicts Between Syariah And Civil Laws
The Halal Industry Development Corporation will assist the Halal Product Research Institute of Universiti Putra
Malaysia in marketing its research findings internationally.
Many American meat exporters obtain halal certificate fraudulently
Dubai:
Ninety-five per cent of American food items found in supermarket
shelves in the UAE and some other Gulf countries are not halal even
though they may be certified as such, an industry specialist said at
the Halal World Expo in Abu Dhabi.