Month: July 2020

The new EU legislation, which will enter into force on January 28, 2022, will prohibit any routine use of antibiotics on farms, including all types of preventive treatment of animals. This writes the world of birds. In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidelines for the use of antibiotics for farms, which recommend the use of antibiotics for group prevention.

Antibiotics are use in animal husbandry to accelerate livestock growth and prevent disease. They remain in the muscles of animals and birds (meat),  get into milk and eggs. Unscrupulous manufacturers use such drugs for processing seafood and fruit and vegetable products, contrary to the law.

In animal husbandry, in addition to medicinal purposes, antibiotics in low doses are used to improve growth and to prevent infections. According to official figures, about 80% of the US antibiotic market goes to livestock.

The World Health Organization – WHO is sounding the alarm. In 2009, three US government departments responsible for health, including the USDA, they said, that antibiotics use in livestock and poultry farming was becoming a serious problem.

This is absolute plus. However, it means that their body begins to get used to antibiotics and stops responding to them. Now we can understand that immunity to antibiotics is also transmitted to a person who eats the meat of animals that were given antibiotics.

The lack of antibiotics in animal meat is one of the main requirements for Halal products. This requirement is important to comply with when growing agriculture. That`s means, the presence of Halal certification, a priori, gives a guarantee for the absence of antibiotics in the products used.

In particular, Halal meat is chosen not only by Muslims, but also by people of other faiths who care about healthy and proper nutrition.

 

 

Halal – everything that is allowed to be consumed or used by people according to the Islamic law. First of all, it is safety, cleanliness and good for human health. These are products that are pure both spiritually and physically, produced without the addition of harmful additives and meet the requirements of shelf life and storage.

It is worth noting that Halal products can be consumed by people of any nationality and religion. For Muslims the term “Halal” is primarily a confirmation of compliance with Islamic rules.

A true halal product, in particular sausage, is distinguished by the absence even in minimal amounts of any prohibited ingredient: pork, products made from pork, carrion (an animal, such as a cow or chicken, which is not chopped in accordance with Islamic standards), blood, supplements that may contain prohibited ingredients. In addition, the Halal product is packaged in a shell, regarding which there is no doubt that it is permissible according to Islamic standards.

Sausage casings are divided into two types:

– a sausage casing that is not suitable for eaten (synthetic/polyamide/cellulose). In this case it is used only for packaging the sausage itself and is not considered as such a food product. Halal certification is not required for such a casing and can be used for sausages as a package, the main thing is that it meets state requirements.

– a sausage casing that can be eaten (natural). This type can be used as food, which means that this type of raw material need a separate stage of testing this type of product and there must be Halal certified, which automatically gives a guarantee for Muslims to consume the product.

The natural sausage casings are divided into two types:

– beef gut – the intestines of this animal species that have passed through many technological stages of special processing, including salting, drying and others.

– collagen shell – an edible shell that is as close to natural as possible. It is made of light weight collagen and in their shape are very similar to ordinary sausage casings.

Sausage cannot be Halal if:

– it is made from beef and poultry, but the animals are not slaughtered according to Islamic standards – there is no pork, but this meat is called “carrion” and is forbidden to be consumed by Muslim who respects himself and his family;

– it contains additives, dyes, flavor enhancers, preservatives, which are made from pork, carrion or bones of slaughtered animals, or contain ethyl alcohol;

– it contains other prohibited or doubtful additives in Islam;

– it is packed in a natural sausage casing that is made from carrion or contains additives from carrion.

Many entrepreneurs produce products in this way: they buy Halal beef and poultry (sometimes even just trusting the word of the supplier, which may not be a Muslim), they do not check how the slaughter occurs and do not study what is contained in the prescription, the permissibility of each additive. It turns out that they themselves are confident in Halal status of their products, but in fact they can produce and sell Haram through their own ignorance. This product, in cases where it contains at least one forbidden (Haram) ingredient, is not permitted. It follows that the requirements for the production of Halal sausages are based on the same requirements as for Halal meat.

 

Halal is an environmentally organic product made in accordance with Islamic standards. Halal is a food that meets modern environmental requirements.

Initially, honey is considered a healthy natural product, respectively, honey is a priori a Halal product. “Mention of him is in the Qur’an, in the surah of“ Bees ”. Work has been invested in it, starting from the hard work of bees. Honey carries a barakat for the consumer, the grace of the Alah. It has pronounced medical and dietary and preventive properties.

So why honey can not be Halal?

All plant products (vegetables, fruits, cereals in pure form) and honey, without any impurities (for example: stabilizers, emulsifiers, dyes, flavor enhancers, flavorings) are automatically considered Halal. But due to the fact that now the cultivation of products and food technologies are developing very rapidly, and genetically modified products or processed products with dubious composition began to appear on the market, Halal consumers may have questions about products of even plant origin.

Also, if honey and alcohol are produced at one factory (for example, there are very often cases when a producer produces honey and other types of alcohol at the same time, such as mead), respectively, if a producer plans to produce and produce products for Muslims, he must abandon the parallel production of honey and alcohol.
Since 90% of honey on the market is not natural with an admixture of preservatives or processed, the Halal certificate guarantees the quality and preservation of all initially useful qualities of honey. This means that honey marked Halal does not raise additional questions and can be eaten by people of any nationality and religion.