What do we eat, what do we know

Dr. Farrakh Mehboob

Auditor, Halal Assesment & Certification Institute
Food Choice Factors
 Concept of Halal
Quran as book of Law.

َ ‫ض َحلَـ ً۬لا‬
ْ‫ط ِي ً۬باا َو َل تَت َّ ِبعُوا‬ ِ ‫اس ُكلُواْ ِم َّما ِفى ۡٱل َ ۡر‬ ُ َّ‫يَـٰٓأَيُّ َها ٱلن‬
‫ع ُد ً۬و ُّم ِبين‬َ ‫ن ِإنَّهُ ۥ لَ ُك ۡم‬ َ ‫ش ۡي‬
ۚ ِ ‫طـ‬ َّ ‫ت ٱل‬ ُ ‫ُخ‬
ِ ‫ط َوٲ‬

O mankind ! eat the lawful and good things out of what is in

the earth, and do not follow the footsteps of the Shaitan;
surely he is your open enemy.” (Surah Al-Baqarah: 168)
Requirements for animal products to be Halal

The Animal

The Person The Method

 Gelatin

Butter Flavour

Bread Whey
improver Powder
 Keratin

Gelatin

Glycerides
Examples of critical Ingredients
Name of Ingredient / Source Industrial Use
Product

Amino Acids animals, plants, human Food supplements, baby foods,

hairs, duck feathers,
microbial fermentation.
Char coal Animal bone, wood,
synthetic (tribasic
calcium phosphate)
Fats and Oils Animals, Plant
Gelatin pigs, cows, fish
Rennet Animal, microbial
medicine, cosmetics,
shampoos etc.
sugar white, water filters etc.
foods, cosmetics, medicine etc.
Cosmetics, shampoos, Food,
pharmaceuticals (capsule) etc.
Cheese (whey as by product)

Water retention agents Protein (animals, plants Low cost protein powder is
etc.), salts (Phosphates mixed with water and Injected
etc.) in meat to increase weight
In UK certain poultry meat imported from the Netherlands and Belgium containing pork and beef
proteins used as water retention agents (http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/pmeatregsriani.pdf)
European gelatin
80 % is from pure pig-skin.
15 % from cattle.
5 % comes from pig and cattle bones, poultry and fish.

• References:
• http://www.gelita.com/
• http://www.gelatine.org/en/gelatine/overview/127.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin
• http://www.gelatine.org/en/gelatine/production/137.htm
EAT..NO....EAT...NO..EAT..EAT..NO..NO...?
??
Who should decide?????
• “A religious friend”?? Teacher? Parents?
List from internet??

Personal opinion
• Different (knowledge, personality,
personal interest, etc)

More confused!!!
 1
A QUALIFIED
HALAL
Official fatwa

CERTIFICATION
BODY!!!!!!
 General requirement
Supported by muslim community
Represents all Mdahib/Fiqh, at
least within its representative
country
 Working office
 Internal qualification
• Qualified human power
 Muslim
 Food technologist, chemist, veterinarian: capable to
conduct factory audit & ingredients screening
 Imams : capable to issue the fatwa independently

• Audit protocol
 Written
 Implemented
Examples of halal certification body
Country % Halal Body Halal cert. scope
muslim
Indonesia 85 LPPOM-MUI Local + export
Thailand 4.5 CICOT Local + export

Phillipines 5-10 IDCP Local + PAKISTAN?

export

Germany 5.4 Halal Control Export

Netherlands 5 HFFIA Export

 Pakistan based Halal Certifiers

1) Halal Assessment & Certification Institute

We are:
•Rearchers
•Scholars
•Supported & supervised by Madaris
2) Halal Research Council
3) Halal Industry Research Centre
4) Pakistan Halal Certifiers
5) Madaris (Some Madaris of Pakistan are doing independent
certification)
 2
CRITICAL
CONSUMERS
?????
 Lets move one step ahead!!!
Protect local Muslim consumers !!
Increase consumer awareness
 Workshops, Seminars, Media etc.
Halal is a consumer right (as consumer pays for
product while trust that what ever available in Pakistan is
Halal).
 THANKS
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