Cii Radio| Sabera Sheik Essop| 05 October 2016| 03 Muharram 1437
The South African National Halaal Authority (Sanha) on Monday distanced itself from a US chicken producer(Montaire), who claimed over the weekend that all its exported chicken to SA is halaal.
Sanha said in a strongly worded statement that it does not grant halaal certification to any poultry outside South Africa’s borders as “we are unable to exercise stringent monitoring and audit control through having our own dedicated onsite auditors based at the plants, as we do locally”.
The reaction follows after one of the top US poultry producers claimed to media over the weekend that its chicken portions destined for South Africa are halaal.
Sanha public relations officer EBI Lockhat told media on Monday that any claims that the local authority recognises machine-slaughtered poultry from the Mountaire plants as halaal are false.
“Sanha does not accept machine-slaughtered poultry as halaal whatsoever, be it from local or international sources.
“We can state categorically that we do not have any dealings, affiliations or recognition agreements with the Mountaire plants and the Halaal Food Council of the USA.”
Extracts : Fin24
