São Paulo – The Gulf Accreditation Center (GAC) gave the greenlight earlier this month for Brazil’s SIILHalal to certify three new categories of products: chemicals, cosmetics, and processed and industrialized beef. This allows SIILHalal to issue halal certificates for companies of these sectors that export or want to export to the member countries of the GAC, namely Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, and Kuwait. Above, picture of cosmetics for illustration purposes only.
“We have extended our services to certify the L (Chemicals), N (cosmetics) and C (Processed and Industrialized Beef) categories of companies interested in doing business with the Gulf countries,” SIILHalal CEO Chaibon Darwiche told ANBA. The company was already cleared to certify halal beef by other accrediting bodies, but not chemicals and cosmetics.
There are several accrediting bodies across the world that are used by different international markets. To sell halal products to certain countries, exporters must have heir product certified as halal by a certifier that follows the requirements of an accrediting body used by that market.
“It was a very enriching process comprising several audit phases, and this was the result. I believe our values, experience and story in this market were instrumental for this result,” a press release quoted Darwiche as saying. According to SIILHalal, more and more Brazilian companies are seeking access to the growing halal market. There are 1.8 billion Muslims across the world.
SIILHalal
Founded in 2008, SILLHalal is a company that specializes in Islamic inspection and operates as a halal certifier. The work goes from the production line to the packaging of products fit for Islamic consumption as well as compliance with international rules, the Holy Koran and the Islamic Jurisprudence.
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
