However, in order to address this serious concern and to tap the international halal food market, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Rana Tanveer Husain on Monday announced that the Pakistan Halal Food Authority (PHFA) will be made functional at the earliest. The PHFA’s main purpose is to promote and enhance trade of halal food products to gain share in the international market, he added. Food ministry sees massive potential in Halal food sectorIt is strange that a country where strictly halal food products are consumed lacks a legal body to guarantee that the imported food and other items contain ingredients that are 100% halal. He said the consumers in Pakistan do not have any platform from where they could guarantee that the ingredients used in certain food products, cosmetics and medicines were halal. Moreover, in other countries the demand of halal food items is increasing and Pakistan has a very little role to play in this regard.

Source: The Express Tribune December 04, 2017 17:18 UTC