Halal Certification

Standards

Certification confirming products comply with Islamic law requirements for permissible consumption.

Sources

1. Standards and Metrology Institute for Islamic Countries — OIC/SMIIC 1:2019, General Requirements for Halal Food smiic.org accessed 23 September 2026

There is no single global halal authority, and that is the first thing to know. The closest to a common reference is OIC/SMIIC 1:2019, “General Requirements for Halal Food”, issued by the Standards and Metrology Institute for Islamic Countries, an OIC body. Its catalogue entry states the scope in one line: the standard “defines the basic requirements and general requirements that shall be followed at any stage of food chain.” Beyond that this entry quotes nothing, because SMIIC sells the standard rather than publishing it. In practice certification is granted by national and private bodies that each operate their own schemes and their own approvals, and an importing market generally recognises particular certifiers rather than the standard in the abstract. So the operative question is never “is it halal certified” but “certified by whom, and does the destination market accept that body”.

What this source settles. Where a government or an intergovernmental body is cited, the page is authoritative for the regime it administers and for the figures it publishes about itself. Where a standards body is cited, the entry names the body and describes the standard’s role, but quotes nothing from a text that is sold rather than published. In every case the operative document — the Act, the order, the manual, the issue of the standard your contract names — governs over any summary of it.

Related terms

• BRC Global Standards
• FSSC 22000
• IATF 16949
• IFS Food Standard
• ISO 13485
• ISO 22000

From the AJG lexicon archive (July 2026).