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Halal certification

Posted by: Michael Smith | 7 August, 2009 - 1:16 PM

Many of my listeners have written to me and asked about a new symbol that’s appearing on food and grocery items in Australia.

I’ve seen it on Cadbury chocolates.

The certification that a food item is Halal is provided by the Halal Certification Authority Australia. - link here

Yesterday I spoke with the Chairman of that organisation Hajj Mohamed El-Mouelhy.

Mr El-Mouelhy told me that he is the sole shareholder of the organisation Halal Certification Authority Australia. He said that the “Authority” is a proprietary limited company. He politely declined to speak about the financial details – how much money organisations pay to receive accreditation from his “Authority” and what he does with the money. He said that it’s his private business.

It’s interesting then to read further on his website that

The Australian Halal Food Directory (AHFD) is a collaboration between the State Governments of Australia and was initially funded by the National Food Industry Strategy Ltd (NFISL).

Using words like “Authority” and “collaboration between the State Governments of Australia” might lead you to think that the Halal logo represented something other than a privately owned, proprietary limited company benefitting one shareholder.

Good on Mr El-Mouelhy for his enterprise in exploiting this business opportunity. It’s important that we recognise his symbol for what it is – a private business that gets money every time you buy a product with his symbol on it and you don’t know where that money goes after that. Strange days indeed

Blog comments

The Halal Choices website is http://www.halalchoices.com.au/product_lists.html
It lists all the products that have been listed as Halal & non-halal

Michael Tuesday 27 December, 2011 - 9:21 PM
Thank you for the Halal Choices and the info about Coles - I will not be purchasing meat from Coles henceforth. In the UK it is extremely hard to get any beef, chicken or lamb that is not Halal and we are going the same way. Our choices are being taken away from us - if everything is Halal we have no choice!

PP Sunday 27 November, 2011 - 4:55 PM
Thank you for the Halal Choices and the info about Coles - I will not be purchasing meat from Coles henceforth. In the UK it is extremely hard to get any beef, chicken or lamb that is not Halal and we are going the same way. Our choices are being taken away from us - if everything is Halal we have no choice!

PP Sunday 27 November, 2011 - 4:55 PM
A website that lists all Australian food products that are halal is, HALAL CHOICES.
Also I phoned COLES (1800 061 562) and asked about their 70% halal meat, and they confirmed that the beef, lamb and chicken is halal.

anne white Thursday 24 November, 2011 - 7:50 AM
I just found out about this today! Does anyone know how to get a list of products bearing this logo so we can boycott them?

Diana Monday 7 November, 2011 - 12:05 PM
this guy is a farce, i know all about his certification!

rob Friday 7 October, 2011 - 10:56 PM