By Muhammad Munir Chaudry, PhD The ingredient industry is no stranger to halal, the Islamic dietary guidelines pertaining to food, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products. When globalization opened up commerce between developed countries and emerging economies in the 1990s, U.S. food ...
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UAE: Global Demand Spurs New Gulfood Manufacturing Show
RECORD-BREAKING RESULTS AS GULFOOD 2014 DELIVERS ‘BIGGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL’ SHOW TO DATE Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Following its largest and most influential outing to date in February, the unprecedented success of Gulfood 2014 has been demonstrated once again with the ...
Read More »Opinion: Challenges for private equity in Halal industry
Rushdi Siddiqui, Khaleej Times Total size of food consumption in Muslim world stands at $640b The 57 Muslim majority countries of the OIC have a population of nearly 1.8 billion people and growing, and Islam is the fastest growing religion ...
Read More »Thailand: Uncontrolled growth of halal food sector
MESUT ÇEV?KALP, Sunday’s Zaman Explaining that an increase in the number of non-Muslims also preferring halal foods, food prepared in accordance with Islamic rules, has led to the uncontrolled growth of the halal food sector, Associate Professor Winai Dahlan, the ...
Read More »Germany: Evonik Industries Receives Halal Certification
ESSEN, Germany— Evonik has become one of the first major cosmetic ingredient players to launch a line of Halal certified cosmetic ingredients targeting Muslim populations worldwide. Evonik Industries received halal certification by GmbH & Co Kommanditgesellschaft, a partner of the Islamic ...
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