‘Dubious’ certifiers must be stopped, says HDC chief, ahead of agency’s secretariat role on Malaysia’s Halal Industry Dev’t Council
KUALA LUMPUR - “Halal-by-fax” certification bodies pose a substantial challenge to the credibility of the global halal industry, according to the chairperson of Malaysia’s Halal Development Corporation (HDC).
Speaking at the opening of the World Halal Conference in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (Oct 6), Mahmud Abbas said these halal agencies “are certainly ruining the industry’s integrity and they need to be stopped”.
“There are dubious halal certification bodies around the world… whereby halal certificates are just produced in-house and pasted on packaging. This is a major issue, because [certification] is costly,” he said.
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