1. HALAL Awareness
for
SMI Food Managers and
Factory Owners
Presenter: Dr. Ahmad Robin Wahab

2. A Division of
AmalMerge
International Sdn Bhd

3. Highlights
 Overview – HALAL and your Company
 General Requirements for Food Industries
 Managers responsibilities in HALAL Program
 Understanding HALAL Principles
 HALAL Awareness – Halal Guidelines
 Certification requirement and procedures
 What AmalMerge can do for you.

4. Do your Company need HALAL?
 Are you aware of what your company is doing? Are you prepared?
 Present status –generally (SMI’s)
 No formal QC team or system
 No GMP
 No proper understanding of Halal issues
 Are you experiencing
 Customers complain
 Sales not picking up
 Competition
 Don’t know how to go about implementing Halal system
 Export difficulties?
 Halal audit and certification
 Halal for: ingredient suppliers, chemicals, food supplement, herbal,
cosmetic, fresh produce, animal feed, apparels.
 Restaurant and food service, hotels, hospitals, airlines, contract
manufacturer, packaging and repacking, transport operators

5. General
Requirement
 Local law and municipality requirement
 License to operate – basic training?, eg. drinking water
 Building requirement – machinery dept, MOH
 Food Acts & Food Regulations
 Safety –limits of use of types and amount of chemicals
 Labeling
 HACCP
 Cleaning and maintenance
 Halal?
 Export restrictions.
 Importing country’s regulation – certification
 Consumers requirements (Halal, kosher, GMO-free, Organic)
 BASIC REQUIREMENT (consumers demand)
 GMP, healthy food

6. Managers/Owner
responsibilities
 Understand HALAL
 Endorsement of documents and
work processes - Declaration
 Monitoring the System
 Team leader
 Review HALAL Status
 Staff training
 Linkage to advisor and consultant
 Renewal of Certification
 COMMITMENT

7. Halal Current Issues
 Malaysia as
Halal Hub
 WTO/AFTA
 Food Safety
 new national
certification
requirement

8. What is HALAL Food?
 Grossly misunderstood and interpreted
 It is UNIVERSAL FOOD –fit for all mankind, not
just for Muslim
 Emphasis on Hygiene, Cleanliness and
Safety AND Integrity (Halal dan Toyyiba)
 The act of Slaughtering
 Selection of food sources
 Commitment – declaration, weight & measures
 Avoid contamination
 Good handling and storage

9. Definition of HALAL
 Means permitted, allowed, lawful
 Free of substance from forbidden
(HARAM) animals
 Not containing filthy substances, according
to Islamic Law
 Not prepared using equipment which are
not free from filthy substances
 Does not come in contact during
preparation with food which does not fulfil
above 3 requirements or any filthy
substances

10. Source of HALAL
food and drinks
 All land animals are considered HALAL except:
 animal not slaughtered according to Islamic law
 Pig, dogs
 Carnivorous animal - tiger, bears and similar animals
 Birds with claws and feed by snatching - eagles
 animal permitted to be killed in Islam - rats,scorpion and the
like
 animal and insects forbidden to be killed in Islam - ants
bees, woodpecker
 animals generally considered repulsive - flies, lies, maggots

11. Sources of HALAL food
and drinks
 Water animals living only in water, unless they are
poisonous and harmful
 Plants - all plant types and their product except those
poisonous and harmful to human health
 Drinks - all forms of water except those that are
poisonous, intoxicating and harmful to human health

12. Slaughtering
 Must be performed manually by MUSLIM of sound
mind, mature and fully understands the fundamentals
and conditions related to slaughtering.
 Animal must be animals permitted (HALAL) to be
eaten
 Live animal in their normal conditions
 Respiratory tract, esophagus and jugular vein must
be severed
 All slaughtering device must be sharp and not made
of bones, nails or teeth.

13. Presentation and
Storage
 AllHalal food that are kept, displayed
and served must be isolated from non-
halal goods.
 Goods that come in contact with filth or
non-halal materials are Haram

14. Processing and
cooking
 All foods are Halal if they are processed in a clean
manner using Halal ingredient, and free from filth
 Not contain any product that are considered filthy,
unslaughtered product
 must be prepared using equipment free from filth -
cutting tools
 Must not come in contact with foods which are non
Halal or filthy during processing and storage
CLEAN and NO CONTAMINATION
ALL THE WAY

15. Scope of HALAL
HALAL
Religious Hygiene and
Requirement Health
Requirement

16. Services of
AmalMerge International
Sdn Bhd
Consultancy Services
 Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) & Food
Hygiene
 Quality Systems & Management, HACCP and Food
Safety
 Supplier Assessment and Second Party Auditing
 Food Safety Auditing and Surveillance programs in
Food Services and Franchising Operation
 Franchise Development
 HALAL Compliance Manufacturing

17. Services of
AmalMerge International
Sdn Bhd
Consultancy Services (cont.)
 New company setup for HACCP and Halal compliance
operations
 Post-harvest handling system
 Product And Business Development/ / Product
Improvement
 Pest Control and Warehouse Maintenance in Food
Industries
We help our clients develop specific Quality Manual and
customized SSOPs (Sanitation Standard Operating
Procedures)

18. Training Services of
AmalMerge International
Public Courses and in-house training Bhd
Sdn
 HACCP – Developing a HACCP Food Safety
Plan
 Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
 New Product Development
 Product Recall
 Quality Assurance for Operators, Quality
Control Techniques
 Quality Assurance for Small to Medium Food
Plants
 Internal Auditing, Supplier Assessment

19. Training Services of
AmalMerge International
Sdn Bhd
Public Courses and in-house training (cont.)
 Frozen Food Managements / Cold Chain
System
 HACCP and HALAL: A Total Food
Requirement
 Post Harvest Handling of fruits and vegetables
 ISO9000, Total Quality Management
 Cleaning and Sanitation for operator and
maintenance staff
 Supervisor and operator training on in-house
pest control

20. Contact Information
AmalMerge International Sdn. Bhd.
2695 Jalan Permata 22
Taman Permata
53300 Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA
Tel: +603-4107 3399
Fax: +603-4107 8021
Dr. Ahmad Robin Wahab at +6012-3892695
email: arobin@halalsuperhighway.net