FIGHTING FRAUD IN THE HALAL FOOD INDUSTRY
December 2nd, 2021
Fraud in the global halal food sector is emerging as a widespread problem. A series of scandals have rocked the industry worldwide, and shone a spotlight on the difficulty of eliminating non-halal practices from increasingly large and complicated food supply chains.
In summer 2020, the agriculture and cooperatives ministry in Thailand investigated a widespread suspected scam of pork coated in ox blood sold as beef in the Muslim markets of Bangkok, following analysis of dozens of samples by the Halal Science Centre, at Thailand's Chulalongkorn University. More ...
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