UK: New butchers’ posters for halal market
23/5/12 www.meatinfo.co.uk
Eblex has developed new posters for butchers catering for the halal market in order to satisfy increased demand from the sector.
Farmasi cosmetics launced in Sri Lanka
21/5/12 www.lbt.lk
May 21, 2012 (LBT) – Yaseen’s Computerized Graphics, one of the largest suppliers of labels to the apparel industry has invested over Rs. 200 million to diversify to the cosmetic segment. Director Marketing, Yaseen’s, Hiran S. B. Wijesinghe said they diversified to the cosmetic market since they saw an opening for quality and affordable foreign products. “With the Sri Lankan living standards on the increase and people looking for better things in life, we found out after extensive market study that there is a high demand for high quality cosmetic products. “This is the reason we tied up with the Turkey Cosmetic manufacturer, Farmasi to launch their product range in Sri Lanka,” he said.
HMC Calls for the Defence of Halal and Religious Slaughter
20/5/12 HMC Press Release
‘Write book on halal medicine’
20/5/12 www.nst.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and other Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation member countries should work together to produce a halal pharmacopoeia, a book describing drugs, chemicals and medicinal preparations, for Muslims, according to a pharmaceutical lecturer.
UK beef producers eye new market in UAE
18/5/12 www.arabianbusiness.com
By Andy Sambidge
Quality Meat Scotland has welcomed news that a health certificate for exports of deboned, fresh beef has been obtained by the UK for the UAE.
How Safe is Our Food?
8/5/12 www.anh-usa.org
More and more countries are banning imports of American food products for safety reasons.
EU urged to end “excessive” ritual slaughter
17/5/12 www.europolitics.info
Behalal comments: It was a matter of time when this (“excessive”) raised it’s head as another attempt to control the production of halal and kosher meat from religious slaughter methods. The over production is from pre-stunning methods which produce much higher yields. Assumptions have been drawn that halal means religious when this is not the case in practise.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) who conducted a survey into animal welfare in slaughterhouses in September said its own figures showed most animals were stunned before being killed. A spokesman said: “The results indicate that the number of animals not stunned prior to slaughter is relatively low, accounting for 3% of cattle, 10% of sheep and goats, and 4% of poultry.
“They also show that the majority of animals destined for the halal trade in both the red and white meat sectors are stunned before slaughter.”
The FSA said full details of the survey would be published ahead of a discussion at a board meeting on 22 May and these figures dispel the myth of over production of religious slaughtered meat.
UK: Food labelling consultation launched
16/5/12 www.dh.gov.uk
Choosing healthier foods could be made easier thanks to a UK-wide consultation on front-of-pack labelling launched 14th May 2012.
Opinion: Stunning animals before slaughter is painful, is cruel, and also tortures animals
10/5/12
By Dr Majid Katme, Islamic Medical Association UK
The Islamic Medical Association and British Muslims were shocked on 5th May 2012 to see an erroneous, misguided statement written by Professor Bill Reilly (a consultant in veterinary public health) regarding the religious slaughter of animals used by Muslims and Jews, where he accused Halal slaughter of being cruel to animals when not using secular stunning methods before slaughter!
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UK – The Halal Slaughter Controversy
8/5/12 meatinfo.co.uk
Islamic Halal slaughter has increasingly come under attack from animal rights again activists telling tales of barbaric blood-thirsty ritual slaughter. There are two distinct issues: there is the vegetarian agenda which wants to ban all consumption of animal products, and there is the animal rights lobby which argues for a humane method of slaughter.
UK: Leading vet criticises ritual slaughter of animals
6/5/12 www.bbc.co.uk
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