Taiwan is encouraging its food exporters to tap the Muslim world's huge market for halal food, but the response has been lukewarm so far as companies do not yet see a profit in producing food that complies with Islamic law, the DPA news agency reported .
In the light of ongoing concerns about Halal authenticity of food products in Pakistan and elsewhere an international seminar is being organized by the Pakistan Society of Food Scientists and Technologists and the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America in Lahore on June 29, 2009 at the auditorium of the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research .
Indonesia has asked New Zealand to certify its meat products exported to Indonesia with Halal certification, China's Xinhua news agency reported quoting Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Hasan Wirayuda as saying here on Thursday .
Pakistan's Supreme Court last Friday directed the country's customs officials to to submit a comprehensive report on action taken against those responsible for importing poultry feed contaminated by pig meat in the year 2005-06, the News reported .
Bahrain's Al Salam Islamic Bank has signed an agreement with Thailand's agriculture and food company Charoen Pokphand Foods to jointly invest in agriculture businesses .
The Farm Animal Welfare Council, an advisory body to the British government, has called for the end for waiver from stunning for Halal and Kosher animal slaughter in the country .
