DUSHANBE, July 31, 2013, Asia-Plus – To-date, only two Tajik enterprises have received a Halal certificate.

“The Dushanbe-based sausage making shop “Amiri” and the limited liability company “Fayzi Rasoul” from Khujand have received the Halal certificate,” Afzalsho Vohidov, the head of the Halal supervision department, Tojikstandart (Agency for Standardization, Metrology, Certification and Trade Inspection) told Asia-Plus in an interview.

According to him, 37 domestic enterprises have been offered all necessary facilities for getting the Halal certificate and 14 of them have already applied for the Halal certificate.  

Halal certification tells Muslims that their ingredients and production methods have been tested and declared permissible by a certification body.  It also allows companies to export products to most Middle Eastern countries and South East Asian Countries.

The Eurasian Union for Halal Standardization and Certification functions within the CIS area.  Established in April 2012, the Union, with headquarters in Moscow, ha its offices in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus