News

• Leicester schools halal lamb burger contained up to 50% pork
  12 May, 2013
  A halal lamb burger made by a company supplying Leicester schools contained up to 50% pork, the city council has confirmed. read more
• Poland to reintroduce kosher, halal slaughter methods
  24 Apr, 2013
  Poland's government has approved draft legislation that would reinstate the slaughter of livestock according to the customs of Jewish and Muslim minorities. read more
• Birmingham City Council discovers pork protein in Halal product
  28 Mar, 2013
  Birmingham City Council's environmental health team has discovered pork protein in a Halal meat product while checking for horsemeat contamination. read more
• Pork DNA in halal sausages at Westminster primary school
  14 Mar, 2013
  Pork DNA has been found in halal chicken sausages served in a primary school in Westminster, central London, the local authority said. read more
• Sri Lanka Muslims Give Up Halal Logo
  12 Mar, 2013
  COLOMBO – In a dear sacrifice to save their country’s harmony, Muslim scholars in Sri Lanka decided Monday, March 11, to give up the halal logo on all products to help ease tension with Buddhists. read more
• Halal Food Certification Worries UK Muslims
  10 Feb, 2013
  Following recent fiasco surrounding pork traces found in halal food, the relation between Lancashire Council of Mosques and the city council has come to a deadlock after raising concerns about the certification of halal food supplied to schools read more
• 'Pork in halal food' supplier named
  03 Feb, 2013
  The company which supplied halal food found to contain traces of pork DNA has been named. Food distributor 3663 identified McColgan Quality Foods Limited, a Northern Ireland-based company, as the source of "the very small number of halal savoury beef pas read more
• 'Traces of pork' found in prison food served as halal
  02 Feb, 2013
  Supplier of meat pies and pasties to prisons suspended after FSA informed of contamination read more
• Horsemeat-in-burgers scandal prompts food hygiene fears
  05 Dec, 2012
  Jewish and Muslim leaders express concern over descriptions while trade union warns meat industry is unfit to regulate itself - The Telegraph read more
• EU: Poland Government to do a “U Turn” on banning Halal and Kosher slaughter
  04 Dec, 2012
  Poland is to draft new laws so that it does not have to stop slaughterhouses from producing kosher meat, a prospect that has angered the Jewish community in the country where Nazi Germany massacred millions of Jews during World War Two. read more
• How they fed us donkey burgers
  18 Nov, 2012
  Australians were unwittingly fed donkey meat, goat and maggot-ridden offcuts by some of the country's leading meat producers, according to newly revealed Royal Commission findings. read more
• New poultry stunning rules may affect quality, warns Dutch firm
  31 Oct, 2012
  New European Union (EU) rules on animal welfare, applicable from January 2013, might affect the quality of EU-made poultry meat, a spokesman for a major Dutch poultry producer has told an international conference in Brussels on the protection of a read more
• Defra grants £366,000 to Halal food park in Banham
  04 Oct, 2012
  Up to 60 new jobs could be created in Banham after the government awarded more than £350,000 to a European Halal Food Park. read more
• Traces of pork found in chicken hotdogs – Prohibited food entering Kuwait
  13 Sep, 2012
  The Kuwait Municipality is reportedly working on recalling a shipment read more
• Birmingham trading standards seize chickens in halal labelling probe
  31 Aug, 2012
  CONSUMER watchdogs in Birmingham have seized hundreds of chickens during an investigation into firms selling meat wrongly-labelled as halal to Muslims. read more
• Halal abattoir meets growing opposition
  21 Aug, 2012
  The Say NO to halal slaughter in Skegness facebook group was set up after it was announced a business practising the religious methods was preparing to move into the towns Heath Road abattoir. read more
• French Muslim Shoppers Demand Halal Foods
  01 Aug, 2012
  LIVRY GARGAN, France - The Islamic fasting month of Ramadan is underway, and in France it underscores the growing influence of Muslim shoppers. In the Paris suburb of Livry Gargan supermarkets and manufacturers are scrambling to meet the demand for halal read more
• KFC accused of mislabelling chicken as halal
  28 Jun, 2012
  A top fast food chain has been accused by the country’s leading Islamic scholars of mislabelling its chicken as halal. read more
• Kosher and Halal slaughter unconstitutional in Poland?
  22 Jun, 2012
  Poland's Attorney General says the practice of Kosher and Halal ritual slaughter violates the nation's animal protection act. read more