- HALAL STANDARDS : to ensure adequate supply of halal food through the Global Halalan Toyyiban

Soudan /Sudan :
Halalan Toyyiban hub to ensure halal products are not contaminated in the production and distribution chain

Malaysian investment firm Pembangunan Buku Hijau Holdings Sdn Bhd will sign a memorandum

of understanding on Thursday with Indonesia's biggest Islamic organisation Nahdlatul Ulama,

China's NingXia province and the Sudan Halal Development Authority (SUHADA).Chief Executive Officer Dr Abdul Rashid Tang Abdullah told Bernama here today the MoU's

 main aim is to ensure adequate supply of halal food through the Global Halalan Toyyiban

Supply Chain (GHTSCP).The GHTSCP scheme is the world's first initiative to ensure halal products are not contaminated

in the production and distribution chain through a certification system based on the MS2400:2010

Standard.

Abdul Rashid said the GHTSCP secretariat comprising bodies like the Department of Islamic

Development Malaysia (Jakim) will provide consultancy and technical training to the countries

or communities involved.

"The four countries will be able to conduct cross-border barter trade and at the same time

help strengthen the economy of Muslims in their respective country," he said.

The company will also sign a collaboration agreement with Al-Gazira and White Nile states

on the development of a Halalan Toyyiban hub and export facilitation witnessed by former

Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the Malaysia-Sudan Trade and Investment

Forum to be held here on

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