The Uttar Pradesh authorities on Saturday banned the manufacturing, storage, distribution, and sale of meals, medicines and beauty gadgets with halal certification within the state with speedy impact. The ban has been imposed within the curiosity of public well being and to forestall confusion, officers said.
The order from the Uttar Pradesh Meals Commissioner stated, “In the interest of public health, production, storing, distribution and sale of halal certified edible items are banned in Uttar Pradesh with immediate effect.”
The Halal certification ensures that the services adjust to Islamic legislation.
The Commissioner’s order states that the appropriate to determine the standard of meals gadgets lies solely with the authorities talked about beneath the Meals Security and Requirements Act, 2006.
“Thus, Halal certification of food products is a parallel system which creates confusion regarding the quality of food items and is completely against the basic intention of the said Act and is not tenable under Section 89 of the said Act,” the order states.
The federal government additionally warned of strict actions in opposition to those that violate the ban.
Nevertheless, items with Halal certification produced for export are exempted from the ban.
The order got here after the state police, earlier right this moment, filed a number of circumstances in opposition to a number of corporations for promoting ‘Halal licensed’ merchandise utilizing faux paperwork.