INTERVIEW-Turkey’s halal chief sees SMIIC approach as solution to harmonisation
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It is rare to find a career civil servant, one who has spent a lifetime officiating in the bone-dry world of standards and regulations, voicing a desire for the wholesale simplification of global processes, but the chairman of Turkey’s Halal Accreditation Agency (HAK) harbours hopes for widespread reform of this most taxing and intransigent of bureaucracies.
Zafer Soylu, who assumed the role this year following years developing and implementing standardisation and regulation at Turkey’s Ministry of Trade, said he “dreams” one day that all Muslim manufacturers and exporters around the world may be able to call on one common halal rulebook.
With HAK, Turkey can play a central role in making this happen, believes Soylu, despite the vast complexities inherent in finding a way to unite all accreditation and certification bodies.
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