FOOD - HALAL - BIMP-Eaga eyes bigger Halal market sharelatest!

KUCHING: Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East Asean Growth Area’s (BIMP-Eaga) proponent projects, Halal poultry was set to capture at least two per cent of the demand for 770,000 metric tonnes per year of Halal food products in the Gulf States, including Jordan and Yemen.

FOOD AND DRUGS - RI becomes world’s halal standard reference

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Indonesia has been chosen as a reference to standardize the world’s halal label, World Halal Council president Lukmanul Hakim said lately. “We will set a halal label standard, referring to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore,” Lukmanul said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

The agreement was taken in a recent international meeting participated by 31 institutions such as the Australian Federation of Islamic Council (AFIC), Halal Transaction of Omaha of the U.S.A., and Shandong Islamic Association (SIA), China.

LIFESTYLE - FOOD - Argentina - World Meat Congress look at Halal trade

Approximately 1,000 attendees packed an auditorium on the first day of the 18th World Meat Congress in Buenos Aires. Fifteen diverse speakers made presentations from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on industry trends in many countries. Rashid Kadimi, CEO of the processed foods division of the Allana family food group in Mumbai, India, covered the surprisingly large scale of bovine buffalo meat production in India. World production of buffalo meat reached 65.9 million tons in 2009, with both India and China being major exporters, Kadimi said.