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By Hj Minor Absah
This was announced yesterday by Hj Kassim bin Hj
Mohamed, Acting Assistant Director of Syariah Affairs, Halal Food Control
Section of the Ministry of Religious Affairs
The enforcement of the Order will be implemented in stages and
applications will be open for local halal food producers who wish to use the
Brunei Halal logo during the
Shortly after the Expo, applications will be open for entrepreneurs
wishing to use the Halal logo on their products at a fee of B$50 a permit for
each product.
Applicants who wish to use the logo can obtain their application forms
at the Halal Food Control Section during office hours. A completed form must be
returned together with a list of products that is applied for and also a list
of ingredients used in the process.
Hj Kassim stated that the Inspection Officers will conduct an inspection
on production premises to ensure that the ingredients used are halal and that
the preparation area or machines are used to process halal products only,
before issuing a Halal permit. If needed, these inspection personnel will ask
for laboratory testing of products considered suspicious.
Besides this, the inspecting officers will also hold oral and written
test for Halal Food Supervisors of any company as required in the order.
In the second stage, applications will be opened for food outlets or
restaurants in t the country wishing to get the Halal certification at their
premises. This will hopefully start by December this year.
The owners of the food outlet and restaurants will be able to obtain
applications in December. They must abide by the requirements of the Halal
Certificate and Label Order or else their applications will not be considered.
Among the requirements include having at least two Halal Food
Supervisors at each premises and strictly only Halal food can be sold or
brought into the said premises. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin |
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