G.C.C STANDARDIZATION ORGANIZATION (GSO) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Project: final 
GSO …….. /2008  
 
 
 
 
 
 
HALALFOOD 
Part (1): General Requirement  
 
 
 
 
 
Prepared by 
Technical committee for Sector of  Foods and Agriculture Products 
Meeting of Gulf task force state of Kuwait  
 
 
 
 
This document is a project to a gulf standard specification that has been 
distributed for taking opinions and suggesti ons thus it is subject to change and 
modification and it can not be referred to  as a gulf standard specification unless 
it has been adopted by the board of gulf standard forum. 
   
Contents  
  
………………………………………………………5 1-  scope and Field of Application 
………………………………………………………5 2-  complementary references 
………………………………………………………5 3 - Terms and definitions 
………………………………………………………6 4- Requirement 
………………………………………………………8 5- Labeling 
………………………………………………………9 Technical terms 
………………………………………………………10 references 
   
  
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Preamble 
The gulf G.C.C Standardization Organizati on is a regional forum that has in its 
members the national departments for standards and specifications in the Gulf 
Arab states,   
The organization’s objective is to prep are the gulf standards specifications by 
technical specialized committees . 
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Forward 
   
  
GCC Standardization Organization (GSO ) is a regional Organization, which 
consists of the National Standards Bodi es of GCC member States. One of GSO 
main functions is to issue Gulf St andards /Technical re gulations through 
specialized technical committees (TCs). 
 
GSO through the technical program  of committee TC No.: 5 " Technical 
committee for Sector of Foods and Agriculture Products " has prepared this 
Standard " HALALFOOD Part (1): Ge neral Requirement ".  The Draft Standard 
has been prepared by ( State of Kuwait ). 
 
The draft Standard has been prepared based on relevant ADMO, International 
and National foreign Sta ndards and references.  
 
This standard has been approved as a Gulf (Standard / Technical Regulation) by GSO Board 
of Directors in its meeting No.(       ),held on                                 /     /             H ,      /     /   
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HALAL food 
Part I:: General Requirements 
   
1. Scope and Field of Application  
This standard specification states th e requirements that should be followed 
upon producing, preparation, deali ng and storing HALAL food and its 
products . 
 
2. Complementary References        
2.1 Gulf standard specification no GSO 9 “Labeling of Prepackaged Food 
Stuff”. 
2.2 Gulf standard specification no GSO 993 “conditions for animal slaughter 
according to Islamic Sharia rules”. 
2.3 Gulf standard specification no GS O 21 “hygienic conditions in food 
plants and its staff”  
 
3. Terminology and Definitions 
 
3.1 Islamic Slaughtering 
Islamic Slaughtering means the way to follow for Tathkia of animals that 
includes birds to make it HALAL for consumption according to the Gulf standard specification no GSO 993. 
 
3.2 HALAL Food 
It means food products that is allowe d according to Islamic Sharia rules 
and that comply with requirements mentioned in this specification.   
 
 
 
 
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3.3 HALAL food certificates 
It includes both HALAL slaughtering cer tificates and certificates given to 
HALAL food products including those that have in its ingredients 
extractions of meat  like abomasums  , gelatin , animal fat and all material 
of the same nature . 
  
4. Requirements 
 
4.1  HALAL Slaughtering Requirements  
  
Slaughtering conducted in accordance to requirements in the Gulf 
standard specification no 993 " requi rements to slaughtering animals 
according to Islamic sharia rules" 
  
4.2 HALAL Food Requirements 
Is to have HALAL food and its products and extractions allowed 
according to rules of Islamic sharia that allow all food except whatever 
coming from sources in the following table: 
CALASIFICATIONS 
OF FOODS  HALAL NON  EXAMPLES  
1- Wild animals that are not slaughtered according to 
Islamic sharia rules, or that  was dead or contaminated 
with animals that are not halal ـــــــــــــــ
2- pigs, domesticated donkeys, mules , elephants and 
monkeys and all that is in this category ـــــــــــــــ
 3- carnivorous animals and all that is in this category Dogs, foxes, leopards, bears , cats except hyenas 
4- birds with sharp claws, birds of prey and what is in its category birds of prey, falcons  carnivorous 
animals, Ravens  eagles 
5- Rodents, Reptiles and roaming animals and all that 
is in this category Mice , rats, centipede and snakes, Chameleon and lizards , Hedgehogs bats (except Dhab lizard and Jerboa)  and Alaozag lizards 
6- scorpions And all insects, worms and those that are not allowed to be slaughtered in Islamic sharia and all 
that is in this category Ants , bees, Hoopoe,  wood pecker 
and excluded are Locust and whatever inevitable such as bee 
parts falling into honey
.4.2.1 
Animals 4.2.1.1 
WILD 
7- nasty creatures and whatever in this category  ـــــــــــــــ
6CALASIFICATIONS  HALAL NON  EXAMPLES  
OF FOODS 
8- Animals that have been fed with najasah unless 
they are locked and fed with proper  allowed feed 
according to Islamic sharia rules, for a minimum of 3 days  ـــــــــــــــ
4.2.1.2  
Water 
animals  Poisonous water animal, that are harmful to health unless the harmful or poisonous material is removed ـــــــــــــــ
4.2.1 
Animals  4.2.1.3  
amphibious  All amphibious animals and the like Crocodile, frog except sea turtle 
4.2.2     Plants Poisonous plants and their products, that are harmful 
to health unless the harmful or poisonous material is 
removed  ـــــــــــــــ
drinks with narcotic drugs, drinks 
Intoxicating drinks 4.2.3   ـــــــــــــــ
4.2.3 Genetically 
Modified Foods Food produced by  genetically modified entities using 
genetics of a non-HALAL pieces or more of haram 
specie   ـــــــــــــــ
4.2.5  Food additives All  food additives derived from foods in the table ـــــــــــــــ
 
4.3 Requirements of Preparation Pack aging Storage , Handling And    
Distribution 
 
4.3.1 The HALAL food should not contain any of the ingredients mentioned in 
terms 2.4 
4.3.2 All food should not be protected with equipments contaminated with  non-
HALAL foods  . 
4.3.3 During preparation manufacturing and distribution food must be 
completely separated from any othe r foods not complying with terms 
4.3.1 and 4.3.2 or other ma terials that are not HALAL. 
4.3.4 The required Safeguards should be in place to distinguish HALAL food in 
each stage of food manufacturing including preparation storage and 
handling to avoid contamination or mixing with non HALAL foods or 
materials. 
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4.4 Tools and Equipments Requirements 
 
4.4.1 Tools and equipments and material  and aid material used in HALAL food 
preparation should not be made of  or contains non-HALAL material. 
 
4.4.2 Without  Breaching what is menti oned in GULF standard specification no 
GSO 21, the equipments AND TOOL S USED and production lines that 
touched non HALAL food must be washed properly with clean drinkable 
water, in an adequate way to remove  traces of non al HALAL foods prior 
to using them to produce HALAL food.  
 
5. Labeling 
 
5.1 Without breaching gulf standard speci fication no 9 pertaining to packaged 
food material cards mentioned in te rm number 2, the card must contain 
the following: 
5.1.1 Name of the product. 
5.1.2 Net of contents expressed in metric units. 
5.1.3 Name and address or packaging agent or distributor or importer or 
exporter or seller.  
5.1.4 List of ingredients. 
5.1.5 The symbol or code that stat es date of manufacturing and expiry 
date. 
5.1.6 Country of origin. 
5.1.7 When HALAL logo is wanted to be used in the product card, the 
emblem granting party must be  accredited according to the 
procedures used by the gulf standards ORGANIZATION . 
   
 
 
 
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Technical terms 
  
  
HALALFood ………..…………………………………………………………..اﻟﺤﻼل  اﻷﻏﺬﻳﺔ  
Slaughtering …………..…..…………………..……………………………………اﻟﺤﻼل  اﻟﺬﺑﺢ 
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References  
 
− SASO 2172/2003  
− Malaysian Standard MS 1500:2004 
− CAC/GL 24-1997 
− Brunei Darussalam Standard PBD 24:2007  
− JS 1475:2001 
   
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