Comments on: Malaysia hopes to create world halal sta… http://talkislam.info/2009/10/31/malaysia-hopes-to-create-world-halal-sta/ a crescent waxing eloquent Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:18:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Len http://talkislam.info/2009/10/31/malaysia-hopes-to-create-world-halal-sta/#comment-17376 Len Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:47:25 +0000 http://talkislam.info/2009/10/31/malaysia-hopes-to-create-world-halal-sta/#comment-17376 Meh. It'll be tough to agree upon what exactly comprises "halal", as the article states. Alcohol, food additives...it'll become a mess. What's more likely to happen in terms of halal certification, if it happens at all on a large scale, is that there will be multiple accreditation agencies, each with their own standards...like Kosher food (OU, triangle-K, star-K, etc.). Some alcohol might be fine for some, machine slaughtered might be fine for others... Then there will be the issue of whether companies actually go ahead and pay for the certification (my guess: it won't be free). Meh. It’ll be tough to agree upon what exactly comprises “halal”, as the article states. Alcohol, food additives…it’ll become a mess.

What’s more likely to happen in terms of halal certification, if it happens at all on a large scale, is that there will be multiple accreditation agencies, each with their own standards…like Kosher food (OU, triangle-K, star-K, etc.). Some alcohol might be fine for some, machine slaughtered might be fine for others…

Then there will be the issue of whether companies actually go ahead and pay for the certification (my guess: it won’t be free).

]]>