Fake halal meat in Kuwaiti markets

Gulf Times:Kuwaiti markets are saturated with imported meat with forged certificates wrongly identifying the food as halal, or permissible for consumption by Islamic law, a Kuwaiti researcher said.

Dr Hani al-Mazidi, a technological researcher at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, said there was an overabundance of official bodies trying to supervise the implementation of halal regulations, and as a result they were all questioning the others’ validity, according to the Kuwait Times.

Several processed meats analysed by the institute were found to contain fats and gelatins with “suspicious origins,” including substances from pigs, which are prohibited for consumption by Muslims...continue Reading