It means high analysis of critical points control (HACCP). It’s a control system that approaches the assurance of the food through the analysis and control of physical, quimical and biological risks; Since the production of the raw material, supply and management, till the production, distribution and consum of the end product.

This system is based in 7 elements:

• Realizing an analysis of danger.
• Determining the points of critical control (PCCs).
• Establishing the critical limits that means the maximum and, or the minimun values that when not considered, make impossible the security guarantee of the food.
• Establishing the management procedure of the critical limit.
• Establishing corrective actions when the declination of the critical limit occurs.
• Establishing the verifying procedures.

It means good pactices in the production. They’re procedures that shall be addapted by food industries, in order to assure the sanitary quality and the accordance of the products with the technical rules. The federal sanitary legislation regulates those procedures in general propriety, adaptable to every kind of food and specify industry, turned to the industries that processes certains types of food.

Unfortunatelly, there aren’t many products with Halal stamp and quality in the supermarket shelves;Most of the Brazilian industries just export.We’re working in order that the industries reserve a part for the internal market. There are many competent products, but for the internal market they don’t use the stamp, like sugar, coffee, chocolate, cheese, etc. If you want to know about brands and products, go to the page qualified industries and click in the logo of the industry.

You shall practice your citzenship and rights, as a consumer, looking for the industries through SAC (Service of attendance to the consumer) and asking for informations about the ingredients.

Vegetal gelatin is 100% halal.However, in Brazil, most of gelatins are from suine origin.When a gelatin is from bovine origin, we call it type B gelatin and it shall be deriving from a halal slaughtering, if not, it’ll be mashbooh and so, it’ll stay under a criterion of your conscience.

The gelatin is a cologen extracted from the animals skin and bones (suine and bovine animals).Most of gelatin found in Brazilian supermarkets have a suine origin, because that’s a cheap raw material, so they’re haram for muslims consumers.The bovine gelatin exists in a smaller amount for the internal market, so, before consumption, the consumers shall ask the producers informations about their source.Fish gelatin and vegetal gelatin are 100% halal.

Every vinegar is halal, except those that are deriving from wine and the balsamic vinegar.

Proceesed chesese through microbian coagulum is halal.If the animal coagulum was extracted from the stomach of the bossies or bulls, it will be halal, but only if the animal had had a halal slaughtering.

There are others haram ingredients that can be introduced in the cheese, such as the red pigment Carmine (extracted from the insect Cochinilha) and the alcohol utilized as a solvent in flavour.

No, the alcohol doesn’t evaporate at all; there’s always an amount left of alcohol, which is bigger in the biscuits stuffing because they have a shorter warming.