HALAL FOOD MANUFACTURERS ASKED TO ADOPT "TOYYIBAN" HALAL SYSTEM

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 11 (Bernama) -- Food manufacturers must enhance the value and quality of their products by adopting the "toyyiban" (or good) halal system.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nor Mohamed Yakcop said
the system would ensure the purity of the products along the supply chain which
included transportation, storage and packaging.

"This system will avert and minimise the possibility of product
contamination by illegal methods of food preparation and ensure the integrity of
halal products," he said at the opening of the National Toyyiban Halal System
Consultative Forum here Thursday.

Nor Mohamed said the local halal food industry was worth RM45 billion
(US$1=RM3.4) while
the global halal market was valued at about RM2 trillion.

The National Toyyiban Halal System Consultative Forum, organised by the
Yayasan Ekonomi Sejagat with the cooperation of the Halal Industry Development
Corporation and Department of Standards Malaysia, is aimed at introducing the
toyyiban halal system to halal food entreprenuers.

-- BERNAMA