BHJ Targets Halal Market
Ingredients firm BHJ UK has received halal certification for its SCANPRO Beef 95 functional protein product. Audits were carried out by the Islamic Centre Archen (Germany), making the texture-enhancing ingredient available for UK and global meat processors looking to specialise in halal beef-based products. “With around 2.5 million Muslims in the UK and 1.6 billion halal consumers globally, this is a growing consumer market and certification is essential for gaining access,” said sales and marketing director Richard Parnell. “Now, customers manufacturing beef based products for the halal food industry have full access to our SCANPRO Beef 95 protein and its added benefits. With increasing demand, it has never been a better time for us to ensure our...
Bacon, Deli Meat May Raise Pancreatic Cancer Risk...
Risk rises 19% per serving of processed meat, study suggests CBC News Posted: Jan 13, 2012 3:51 PM ET Bacon or sausage? You might want to rethink that decision. Consuming processed meat regularly may increase a person’s risk of developing pancreatic cancer, though the risk is still low, says a new study. A meta-analysis of 11 studies involving 6,643 people with pancreatic cancer suggests an elevated risk of the disease when consuming processed meat such as bacon, cold cuts and sausages. In the study, men who ate red meat also showed an elevated risk of the disease, while women did not. The authors believe this is because men generally consume more red meat than women. For every 50...
Local US Farmers Cater to Muslim Traditions...
September 30, 2010 Jeff Swicord | Mount Airy, Maryland Many Muslim-Americans have often had difficulty finding Halal-certified meat, or meat slaughtered in according to Islamic tradition, in their local grocery stores. Sometimes, they have resorted to buying whole goats or lambs on farms and slaughtering them on-site themselves, in accordance with tradition. But this is illegal in many parts of the United States. Realizing the growing Muslim market in the U.S., some American farmers are opening legal halal-certified slaughterhouses with great success. After 37 years of working with livestock on other people’s farms, Joe Kavanagh decided to open a slaughterhouse on his own farm with a unique clientele in mind. Part of his business is catering to Muslims,...
Halal Cosmetics Founder Hopes to Broaden Appeal...
August 26, 2010 David Byrd | Washington A mother of five from Birmingham, England has launched her own line of halal cosmetics. Samina Akhter started her cosmetic and personal care line because she was disturbed by some of the ingredients in over-the-counter products. Akhter is hoping her line will appeal to non-Muslims as well as serve the needs of her own community. When you open the website,saminapuremakeup.com, a flash movie featuring several beautiful models greets you. All the women have flawless, smooth skin, moist lips, and alluring eyes. Midway through the movie a model appears in a head scarf, but that is one of the few clues that the product line appeals to Muslim women. One of the images...
From Corporate Executive to Halal Goat Farmer...
June 23, 2010 Mohamed Elshinnawi | Washington, DC A former telecommunications executive has created a new life for himself in rural America outside of Washington, D.C.. Mukit Hossain moved to a six-hectare farm in Spotsylvania, Virginia to raise goats. What prompted Hossain to become a goat farmer? Two young daughters and what he saw as an over emphasis on material life. “It was mostly about designer clothes. It was about conspicuous consumption. It was about boyfriends and girlfriends,” he says. “And for five and six year olds to think in those terms, I thought it is quite dangerous, so we decided that we are going to move further south to a farm.” So Hossain reordered his life and...
Germany Waking up to Growing Market for Muslim Food...
10/06/2009 By Daniela Schröder Gehlenberg is a sleepy village in northern Germany. It has a population of 1,600 and boasts a church, community hall, war memorial and a pub, along with a few wooden crosses by the roadside and a tiny chapel. It’s a staunchly Catholic village, but on three days of the week, the Prophet Muhammad makes the rules — in a white factory building on the outskirts of the village, that is. That is where the Meemken family business produces a broad range of sausage that follows Islamic food standards. The company supplies almost 100 tons of salami and various other types of sausage each week to food retailers in Germany and abroad. International food companies...
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