Following audit by the Islamic Food & Nutritional Council of America, ingredients supplier National Starch & Chemical has been granted halal certification for its sites at Hamburg in Germany, Tilbury in the UK and those based in the USA.
Islam, the second largest religion in the world with over 1.8 billion followers in 112 countries, prohibits certain foods from the Muslim diet. Those barred include alcohol, pork and certain animal derivatives.
But while most forbidden products are easily identified by food labels, confusion arises where ingredients are suspect