TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran launched an online system for monitoring and authorizing the production of halal food, which is a product permissible under Islamic law.
An official from the Iran Agriculture Ministry said that the Integrated Halal System is aimed at expediting and coordinating administrative processes related to halal food production, exports, and imports, Press TV reported.
Peyman Falsafi said rolling out the new system is also in line with Iran’s efforts to become a regional and international hub for exports of halal food.
Falsafi added that the new system would cover all activities related to halal food in the country, including training people familiar with procedures and methods that ensure production of food is compliant with religious standards.
Iran’s Agriculture Ministry announced earlier this year that it had ordered slaughterhouses in Brazil, where meat is processed for exports to Iran, to install online cameras so that Iranian authorities could monitor their operations.
Authorities said later that such cameras had been installed in at least seven other countries exporting meat to Iran.
The launch of the new halal system would allow Iranian exporters of food and agricultural products to obtain the required certificates for shipping halal food to countries where there is a high demand for such products.
It comes amid increasing exports of agro-food from Iran as the country struggles to compensate for foreign currency losses suffered as a result of the US sanctions on its oil exports.
A majority of Iran’s exports of farming products are destined to countries where there are strict regulations for production and consumption of halal food and where competition is growing between major Muslim countries to gain a better share of the halal food market.
- source : Iran Daily, Irannews
