HALAL POLICY

We are committed to consistently produce Halal products in meeting the Halal consumers’  needs. We will achieve this by :

1. Ensuring all Halal finished products are certified by World Halal Trust.

2. Ensuring all raw materials procured and used in the manufacture in our certified products are .approved by World Halal Trust.

3. Ensuring the production systems for certified products are clean and free from Haram and Najs material. Refer to Appendix A for example definition.

4. The following staff has been appointed to coordinate Halal.

5.  Responsibility of the Halal coordinator  will be as follows:

a) Co-ordinate the implementation of Halal procedures at the site.

b) Communicate with World Halal Trust for any issues relating to Halal.

c)  Inform World Halal Trust before any of the following changes are made relating to the Halal certified products.

                                          i.      Addition, removal or substitution of any of the raw materials.

                                        ii.       Change to any raw materials.

                                      iii.       Any changes to the manufacturing process.

                                      iv.       Change of supplier of any of the raw materials, including new supplier(s) and/or discontinued supplier(s).

                                        v.     Change to the processing plant or site of manufacture or use of the processing plant for products that are not Halal certified.

                                      vi.     Any changes to the cleaning process or cleaning materials or changes to suppliers of cleaning materials.

                                     vii.     Any trial raw material or product is used on the production line. Full details of raw material or product will need to be submitted to World Halal Trust for approval prior to use

APPENDIX A

1.       Halal

        An Arabic term meaning permitted or allowed by Islamic Law.

2.       Haram

An Arabic term meaning prohibited by Islamic law. See below for examples of Haram materials.

3.       Najs

Substances deemed unclean by Islamic law. Example: Blood, Urine etc.

4.       Haram Material

Any material made from or contains any of the following is Haram:

a)       porcine and its byproducts;

b)      blood and its byproducts;

c)       carnivorous animals with claws and fangs/tusks which are used to kill prey such as lions, elephants, bears, monkeys, cats and other similar animals;

d)      birds of prey with claws such as eagles, owls, sparrows and other similar birds;

e)       rodents, reptiles, amphibians, pests and the like such as rats, cockroaches, centipedes, scorpions, serpents, lizards, hedgehogs and other similar animals;

f)        animals that are prohibited to be killed by Islamic law such as bees, ants, woodpeckers except for locusts;

g)       odious creatures such as lice, flies, larva and other similar animals;

h)      other animals forbidden to be eaten in accordance to Islamic law such as domestic donkeys and mules;

i)         animals which are intentionally and continually fed with unclean (Najs) items, unless the animals are confined and fed, for at least three days, with Halal materials.

j)         any material derived from the human body e.g. L-Cysteine from human hair;

k)       permissible animals (e.g. Cows, Sheep, Poultry etc.) that are not slaughtered according to Islamic law.

5.       Alcohol/Ethanol

Ethyl-alcohol (ethanol), which is derived from the khamr (alcoholic beverage) industry or its by-products e.g. fusel oil is Haram.