Halal even by no name: India continues to export meat by Islamic requirements despite gov’t dropping the H word
The removal of the mention of ‘halal’ earlier this month from India’s red meat manual will not have any impact on the country’s halal meat export, say industry players.
The red meat manual of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has been in use for several years. It is now in its third edition and contains “useful information on various aspects like quality and food safety standards to be followed, chilling, freezing, packaging and labelling requirements, edible offals and other by-products”.
The halal component of the manual that previously read: “animals are slaughtered strictly according to halal method to meet the requirement of Islamic countries”, has now been updated to: “the animals are slaughtered according to the requirement of importing country/importer”.
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