Halal Food & Beverage
Halal foods and beverages are prepared according to Islamic guidelines, ensuring purity and ethical sourcing. Do you know what you are consuming and how it was made? We do.
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Halal Food & Beverage Requirements
What Makes Food and Drink Halal?
HMCA provides Halal certification services to a diverse range of customers, products, and brands across many consumer and commercial industries all across Canada.
While food and beverage stand out as the most important sector of Halal Certification, some examples of HMCA’s primary service offerings are related to flavor companies, meat, poultry and dairy products, to vitamin, supplements, finished goods and other consumable items.
To Make Foods and Beverages Halal, the Following Conditions Must Be Met:
- Permissible Ingredients: All components must be Halal, avoiding pork, alcohol, and harmful or intoxicating substances.
- Ethical & Halal Animal Slaughter: Animals must be healthy, slaughtered by a Muslim, and in the name of Allah, following specific methods.
- No Cross-Contamination: Halal items must be processed and stored separately from Haram (forbidden) items.
- Hygienic Processing: Clean, sanitary facilities and equipment must be used at every stage.
- Transparent Sourcing: Ingredients and suppliers must be traceable and compliant with Halal standards.
- Verified Documentation: Proper records must support Halal compliance and certification.
Who We Work With
Serving Product Owners & Manufacturers Across Industries
Whether it is meat and poultry, flavors and colors, nutraceuticals or non-consumables, processed food, bakery products – HMCA is the company to quickly accommodate all your Halal inquiries and needs.
Some HMCA customers are small enterprises with products produced by third party manufacturers with the industry knowledge and experience to produce, package, label and ship their Halal goods anywhere. Others HMCA customers are long-time family owned businesses who make cheese, ice cream, baked goods and beverages with years of time-tested formulas and flavors that continue to entice buyers domestically and even globally as their products and markets expand aided by Halal certification.
Additionally, large multinational companies entrust HMCA with the certification of their extensive line of products and multiple facilities in North America and overseas.
HMCA is proud of its valued added customer focus and Halal industry experience and proven by daily customer testaments to our excellent service levels which are approved & recognized all across North America.
HMCA serves various industries located nearly anywhere in the world.
We serve offices, factories, manufacturers, and producers from all industries.
Meat & Poultry
Meat & Poultry is the vital section for Halal certification – Swine, dead animals, carnivores, animals slaughtered without the name of Allah are Haram.
Flavors & Ingredients
We check for flavors, raw ingredients, emulsifiers, additives, mono- and diglycerides, enzymes, etc. to ensure Halal compliance.
Bakery & Food Processing
Food color, dough conditioner, L-Cysteine, gelatin, rennet, porcine, lard, pepsin, lipase, shortening – all these are doubtful ingredients.
Fish & Seafood
Fish & seafood are generally considered Halal, by majority school of thoughts. However, some exceptions apply for certain conditions & rulings.
Juices & Beverages
Alcohol is strictly prohibited and therefore any percentage of its usage is considered Haram(forbidden) in any of the juices or beverages.
Have Questions?
Ask us how HMCA can help benefit your company’s specific goals and plans. Fill out the form and we will be happy to get back to you with our answers.