Food fraud: The educated consumer is the best means to advance progress in halal standards
Photo: Members of the Public Health Surveillance Agency collect sausages to analyse in their laboratory, at a supermarket in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Brazil’s current investigations into alleged sanitary fraud and corruption in the nation’s meatpacking industry throws a spotlight on the immediate actions to be undertaken to protect the certified halal food and beverage industry, whose global value is estimated at $415 billion in 2015. While the world blocks or checks Brazilian imports for rotten meat, salmonella, and falsified documentation, there is recollection of other incidents of fraud that shook the confidence of halal consumers.
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Susan Labadi