Jamil Khir: Only Jakim, religious councils allowed to issue halal logo

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal

Jan 05, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 Only a Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) as well as state eremite councils will be allowed to emanate a standardised halal logo, pronounced Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom.

The eremite affairs apportion pronounced a ruling, enforced effective Jan 1 this year, was finished to ensure all products as well as premises adhered to a strictest halal code.

"We wish to have certain which there is consumer confidence, which there is a improved effective pledge of a context of halal.

"This can usually be finished by making certain it (halal trademark certification) is finished by a body which is not out to have a profit... this equates to private companies can no longer emanate a logos," he told reporters here after officiating a government's halal awareness campaign.

Jamil Khir(picture)said which products now regulating halal logos which were not "sanctioned" by a government will be given a Dec 31 deadline to apply for brand brand brand new ones underneath Jakim or a eremite councils.

He pronounced a same order applied for premises regulating old halal logos, as well as which they had apply for brand brand brand new ones as well.

Individuals or premises which failed to adhere to a brand brand brand new manners will be charged underneath a brand brand brand new 2011 Halal Trade Act.

Under a Act, people found causing "confusion" or "misrepresenting" a halal trademark or products can be fined an volume not surpassing RM1 million, locked up for not some-more than three years, or both.

Individuals found to have abused a dedicated difference of a Quran in their premises can be fined an volume not surpassing RM5 million, locked up for not some-more than 5 years, or! both.

Companies or bodies found committing these offences can be fined not some-more than RM5 million. If they have been found to have misappropriated Quranic words, they can be fined not some-more than RM10 million.

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