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Halal Integrity with Rigorous Auditing & Certification

At the Halal Regulatory Commission, we have a highly qualified and experienced team to undertake halal auditing, halal training, and Gap Analysis.  We work with companies to ensure they meet with our comprehensive written standards. Our experts include specialists in Islamic Law, ingredients and additives, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, health and safety, hygiene, quality control and production.

Food Production

Abattoirs

Retail

Ingredients and Additives

Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics

Logistics

Travel & Tourism

Islamic Finance & Investment

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Authentic & Pure Halal Certification

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A Transparent & Ethical Halal Ecosystem

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Trusted Halal Certification Process

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Auditing & Certification:
Trusted Halal Certification Process

HRC undertake annual audits using our comprehensive written standards by experienced and highly trained Halal auditors. All aspects of procurement, ingredients, processes and training are assessed. A companies commitment to halal is an essential aspect of this assessment and we work closely with companies to ensure compliance.

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Audits are transparent, thorough and investigative, ensuring that there is no weakness or risk in halal integrity.

All ingredients are checked to source and anything doubtful (mashbooh) is rejected.

Please contact us on info@halalreg.com in order to apply for an audit and to find out up-to-date information about our certified suppliers.

Only Halal dedicated lines and sites are certified by HRC

About us:
Halal Certification, ‘Authentic & Pure’

The Halal Regulatory Commission (HRC) is an auditing and certification body comprising highly respected individuals in the Muslim community. We aim for a complete ‘Halal Lifestyle’ for the Muslim consumer not just the consumption of Halal guaranteed food. We audit and certify food production sites, Abattoirs, retail outlets, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, travel and tourism, health supplements and investment & finance.

All consumables are now part of a global supply chain and depend upon their constituents from around the world. As such it is essential to be transparent and comprehensive in auditing and certification. Our standards are some of the strictest in the world whilst being practical, sustainable and scalable. This enables any company to produce Halal that can be accepted by the Muslim consumer.

All our auditors are Muslim auditors, trained and employed by HRC and with much of our proceeds going to charitable causes.

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Our Mission:
A Transparent & Ethical Halal Ecosystem

The Halal Regulatory Commission (HRC) is an auditing and certification body comprising highly respected individuals in the Muslim community. We aim for a complete ‘Halal Lifestyle’ for the Muslim consumer not just the consumption of Halal guaranteed food. We certify pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, leather and travel and tourism around the world.

All consumables are now part of a global supply chain and depend upon their constituents from around the world. As such there is even more requirement to be transparent and comprehensive in auditing and certification. Our standards are some of the strictest in the world whilst being practical, sustainable and scalable. allowing any company which is serious about Halal to produce Halal.
All our auditors are Muslim auditors, trained and employed by HRC with much of our proceeds going to charitable causes.

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Understanding Halal & Haram: A Quick Guide

All producers of Halal are required to understand the definitions of Halal and Haram.  Our guidelines are written to ensure compliance with all Islamic dietary laws for ethical and pure consumption and usage.

Animals

Birds

Sea Animals

Doubtful

Liquids

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A panel of esteemed Islamic jurists and scholars ensures that our certification process aligns with strict Halal principles. Their expertise guarantees the highest standards of authenticity and compliance.

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The Leadership Behind HRC

A panel of esteemed Islamic jurists and scholars ensures that our certification process aligns with strict Halal principles. Their expertise guarantees the highest standards of authenticity and compliance.

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Food Production

Halal food production is a big industry with halal food produced by a mixture of Muslim and non-Muslim companies. Therefore, it is essential to ensure that company management and technical directors are completely familiar with halal requirements in all areas from procurement to production. All potential areas of cross-contamination are identified and eliminated.

There are many products with raw materials that are mashbooh (doubtful) which Muslims are not familiar with and this includes food colourings, fats, processing chemicals and enzymes. This could make a seemingly innocent product haram. Halal certification ensures products are halal from farm to fork.

Abattoirs

HRC do not certify Abattoirs that are mixed with non-halal unlike most other certification bodies. HRC certified abattoirs are halal dedicated.
All animals must be alive at the time of slaughter and machine slaughter, gas stunning and stun-kill are not allowed.

All animals are hand slaughtered by Muslim slaughtermen and tasmiyyah and takbir are read on each and every animal.

Retail

The halal retain sector depends upon the integrity of the owners and managers to ensure they only sell halal. However, there are many products with raw materials that are mashbooh (doubtful) which Muslims are not familiar with and this includes food colourings, fats, processing chemicals and enzymes. This could make a seemingly innocent product haram. Halal certification ensures products are halal from farm to fork.

Halal certification ensures products are halal from farm to fork. Restaurants, caterers and fast food outlets must ensure that all their products (not just meat) is certified halal by a credible halal authority.

Ingredients and Additives

With thousands of different raw materials, both synthetic and ‘natural’, being produced all over the world, Halal certification ensures that suppliers guarantee raw materials as halal with halal certificates or other legal means. This is in addition to our own rigorous checking.

Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics

The world of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics is a world of chemicals and few of them are recognisable to the general public. Only experts in the field can properly assess their halal or haram nature. Sun cream for example, lists dozens of raw materials, some using Latin or non-English names. What we consume and put on our bodies should be checked and certified halal.

Logistics

The safe and halal transportation of goods in trucks, tankers and containers is part of our halal assessment. From animal carcases, gases, and the transport of liquids and solids – this is all part of the halal checking and certifying process.

Travel & Tourism

Muslim friendly hotels, resorts and leisure complexes with halal food, prayer areas and separate men/woman facilities are increasingly in demand, even in Muslim countries. HRC provides halal training and certification for the Muslim community in these areas.

Islamic Finance & Investment

Islamic finance is a system of financial practices that follows the principles of Islamic Shari’ah (Islamic law). Islamic finance is designed to be ethical and fair to all interested parties.

At its core there is the prohibition of Usury or Riba. This is when a lender lends money with a requirement of a high expectation of a return, such as a high interest rate or unreasonable and unfair demands. Money cannot be generated without investing and putting it to work with a share of the risk. As such it is accepted that charging interest is forbidden while risk in business is permissible.

Thus, investments must carry shared risk and shared ownership and transactions must relate to real assets and real services. Contracts must be clear and transparent; signed and witnessed; avoiding ambiguity and excessive uncertainty. Abstract investments are not allowed such as speculative trading and investments that is akin to gambling.

Investments in alcohol, gambling, pork related products, products or countries that are directly related to harm and oppression are forbidden.

In Islamic terminology, there are the following investment principles:

Murabaha (Cost-Plus Financing) – buying and selling assets for a profit

Mudarabah (Profit-Sharing Partnership) – one party provides capital and the other expertise. Profits are shared and losses are borne by the investor

Musharakah (Joint Venture) – both parties invest and share in profits and losses

Ijara (Leasing) – The owner of the asset, leases it to the client.

Sukuk (Islamic Bonds) – Investors buy a share of the asset and earn returns from the asset’s performance.

About us:
Halal Certification, ‘Authentic & Pure’

The Halal Regulatory Commission (HRC) is an auditing and certification body comprising highly respected individuals in the Muslim community. We aim for a complete ‘Halal Lifestyle’ for the Muslim consumer not just the consumption of Halal guaranteed food. We audit and certify food production sites, Abattoirs, retail outlets, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, travel and tourism, health supplements and investment & finance.

All consumables are now part of a global supply chain and depend upon their constituents from around the world. As such it is essential to be transparent and comprehensive in auditing and certification. Our standards are some of the strictest in the world whilst being practical, sustainable and scalable. This enables any company to produce Halal that can be accepted by the Muslim consumer.

All our auditors are Muslim auditors, trained and employed by HRC and with much of our proceeds going to charitable causes.

Get a Quote

Our Mission:
A Transparent & Ethical Halal Ecosystem

The Halal Regulatory Commission (HRC) is an auditing and certification body comprising highly respected individuals in the Muslim community. We aim for a complete ‘Halal Lifestyle’ for the Muslim consumer not just the consumption of Halal guaranteed food. We certify pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, leather and travel and tourism around the world.

All consumables are now part of a global supply chain and depend upon their constituents from around the world. As such there is even more requirement to be transparent and comprehensive in auditing and certification. Our standards are some of the strictest in the world whilst being practical, sustainable and scalable. allowing any company which is serious about Halal to produce Halal.
All our auditors are Muslim auditors, trained and employed by HRC with much of our proceeds going to charitable causes.

Get a Quote

Auditing & Certification:
Trusted Halal Certification Process

HRC undertake annual audits using our comprehensive written standards by experienced and highly trained Halal auditors. All aspects of procurement, ingredients, processes and training are assessed. A companies commitment to halal is an essential aspect of this assessment and we work closely with companies to ensure compliance.

Get a Quote

Audits are transparent, thorough and investigative, ensuring that there is no weakness or risk in halal integrity.

All ingredients are checked to source and anything doubtful (mashbooh) is rejected.

Please contact us on info@halalreg.com in order to apply for an audit and to find out up-to-date information about our certified suppliers.

Only Halal dedicated lines and sites are certified by HRC

Animals

All land animals that are herbivores (feed off plants, grasses and seeds etc) are mostly halal, such as cows, sheep, deer and camel.  The exception is pig which is explicitly mentioned in Scripture as Haram. Halal animals only become permissible to eat via Halal Slaughter. This must be undertaken by a Muslim slaughterman causing minimum suffering to the animal whilst the animal is alive and with the pronunciation ‘bismillaahi Allahu akbar’ on each and every animal. The only land animal permitted without slaughter is the locust. Carnivorous/predatory land animals are generally Haram such as dog, cat, tiger, lions etc. 

HRC do not permit stun-kill, gas-stunning or machine slaughter. 

Birds

Birds that do not tear flesh with their claws are generally halal such as chicken, duck , pigeon, Quail etc. and birds which tear flesh with their claws (birds of prey) are haram such as eagle, crow and vulture.

Sea Animals

All animals from the sea are considered Halal according to all schools except hanafi school which considers only fish to be lawful and prawns to be makrooh (disliked). Sea animals do not require Zibah. 

Doubtful

In auditing terms, any product considered mashbooh (doubtful) is not considered halal unless it is demonstrated as such. Thus gelatine or renet can be from both halal or non-halal sources and must be demonstrated to be halal otherwise it is rejected.

Liquids

All intoxicating liquids are forbidden in large or small quantities, such as ethanol.  This also includes denatured alcohols.  Natural liquids such as milk from halal animals, honey from bees are permissible as they are not intoxicating.  Carmine (from cochineal) is considered haram as it is essentially the blood of a bug and is used widely as a red colouring.

Gelatine is not accepted as halal unless the raw materials and it’s production are from credible and certified halal sourses