India announces policy conditions for halal meat exports starting October 16. Only meat processed in facilities certified under the ‘India Conformity Assessment Scheme (I-CAS) – Halal’ will be allowed to 15 countries, including UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh, ensuring compliance with halal certification requirements.
India announces policy conditions for halal meat exports starting October 16. Only meat processed in facilities certified under the ‘India Conformity Assessment Scheme (I-CAS) – Halal’ will be allowed to 15 countries, including UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh, ensuring compliance with halal certification requirements.By Kirtika Suneja, Economic Times Bureau
India on Tuesday notified policy conditions for export of certain halal meat and its products which will come into effect from October 16.
The guidelines cover fresh and frozen meat of bovine animals, sheep and goat.
Notifying the conditions, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said that specified meat and meat products will be allowed to be exported as halal certified to 15 countries including the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh, only if such goods are produced or processed and/or packaged in a facility certified under the ‘India Conformity Assessment Scheme (I-CAS) – Halal’ of the Quality Council of India (QCI).
“Policy conditions for export of specified halal meat and meat products are notified,” the DGFT said, adding that the exporter will have to provide the valid certificate to the buyer in the importing country post shipment.
