date:Oct 18, 2012
The Halal Food Authority (HFA) has turned down an approach from a major brewery to accredit its non-alcoholic beer as halal.
In an exclusive podcast for FoodManufacture.co.uk to discuss recent criticisms of his organisations accreditation decisions, HFA president Masood Khawaja set out his definition of the term halal.
The firm which he declined to name was rejected because, although the drink had 0% alcohol, it refused to change the title of the product from beer to beverage.
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