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In the state of Selangor, some of these fake halal foods originated from China, India, Thailand and Malaysia itself, Wan Najmiah Wan Mohamad Ali, principal assistant director of Halal Management Division at Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) told FoodNavigator-Asia.The food products would be pasted with halal logos that were not authorised by Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) when they were packaged in Malaysia. The most recent case involved a snack packaging factory in Puchong, Selangor. The factory imported products from China. JAIS raided the factory after receiving consumer complaints that products from the factory were not real halal food. The raid found that the company did not have a Jakim halal certificate and had used a false halal logo to fool consumers.“Our checks on the product found that it was produced by a local company and a company from China whose halal status is uncertain,” Wan Najmiah Wan Mohamad Ali said in a press conference. |
