Thesis writing is one of the condition and compulsory for all MRSM Taiping’s

students in order to receive graduation certificate in the ‘Program Khas

Pendidikan’ in MRSM Taiping. For this project we would like to know the
percentage of students who concern about detecting halal product. Below are
a little bit introduction of halal products.

Muslims around the world practice the religion of Islam. The practice of
Islam includes observing dietary laws which come from Islamic teachings.
Islamic dietary laws define foods that are halal, meaning lawful or permitted.
Muslims avoid food and beverages that are haram meaning not permitted.

In Arabic, the word halal means permitted or lawful. Halal foods are foods
that are allowed under Islamic dietary guidelines. Many foods are clearly halal
or clearly haram. However, certain foods are difficult to classify because of the
ingredients they contain. Check for halal certification or read food labels.
Check carefully each time you buy food products, as manufacturers may
change ingredients without notice.

According to these guidelines gathered from the Qu'ran, Muslim followers

cannot consume the following:

 pork or pork by products

 animals that were dead prior to slaughtering
 animals not slaughtered properly or not slaughtered in the name of Allah
 blood and blood by products
 alcohol
 carnivorous animals
 birds of prey
 land animals without external ears

These prohibited foods and ingredients are called haram, meaning forbidden
in Arabic.
HALAL FOODS (PERMITTED FOODS) HARAM FOODS (NOT PERMITTED)
Grain Products
 Rice  Any grain products prepared
 Pasta with Haram ingredients,such as
 Any grain product, such as alcohol,animal shortening,lard
bread,breakfast cereal or or pure and artificial vanilla
baked goods prepared extract
without Haram ingredients
Vegetables and Fruit
 All vegetables and  Any vegetables and fruit
fruit:raw,dried,frozen or prepared with alcohol,animal
canned. shortening,bacon,gelatin,lard or
 All vegetables and fruit some margarines which contain
cooked or served with monoglycerides or diglycerides
water,butter or vegetable from an animal source
oils.
 All juices
Milk and Milk Products
 Milk  Cheese,yogurt,ice cream,frozen
 Yogurt,cheese and ice cream tofu desserts made with animal
made with bacterial culture rennet,gelatin,lipase,pepsin,pure
or microbial enzymes, e.g. or artificial vanilla extract or
microbial rennet whey
Meat and alternatives
 Meat and poultry slaughtered  Pork and pork products
according to Islamic dietary  Meat and poultry not
law slaughtered
 Seafood  Canned beans,peas and lentils
 Nuts,seeds containing pork
 Tofu
 Dried beans,peas and lentils
 Eggs
 Peanut butter
 Halal deli meats
 LIST OF CONTENT
CONTENT PAGES
1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
2. SYNOPSIS
3. INTRODUCTION
4. OBJECTIVES
5. RESULTS
6. CONCLUSION
7. FOOTNOTE
8. APPENDIX
 This research is basically to identify the percentage among students who
concern about HALAL products.We focus these research to muslim
students.This survey had been done in MJSC Taiping which the students are all
muslims. Basically we use survey form to collect all the datas. We would love to
create an awareness among students on how important for them to concern
about this topic The gathered data highlights how much people knowledges on
halal products since they are in a modern world. For the result we realize that
most of the students only take a little care about ways of identifying the HALAL
products before they buy it. Based on the results, we can conclude that as a
student,it is compulsory for us to know about these info
 EXAMPLES OF HALAL LOGOS

These are the halal logos used globally.

MODERN TECHNOLOGY TO DETECT HALAL FOOD

These are the products created by the UPM students.

HALAL LOGO BY JAKIM IN MALAYSIA

This are the HALAL logo used in Malaysia certificates by JAKIM

  To identify the percentage of MJSC Taiping students
who concern about HALAL product.
a)To know whether Muslims students take notes on HALAL
issues
 To create an awareness among students about HALAL
product.
a)Not only students,but all Muslims actually should concern
about taking halal food.

 Exposing the benefits and disbenefits of eating or using

HALAL product.
a)To ensure that all of the Muslims consuming halal foods,they
must be exposed about the benefits and disbenefits for doing
that.
 To encourage students to use HALAL product.
a)They must know that eating non-permitted food will give bad
effects to their health.
 In the name of Allah,The Most Gracious and The Most
Merciful,praised be to Him who had bless us with strength and
patience to us to accomplish and complete our thesis project for The
Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM).

Firstly,special thanks to The Principal,Tn. Hj. Rozali bin Mamat for

giving us permission to carry on our project. Next,we would like to
express a thousand gratitude to En. Abdul Hamid bin Mohamad for
his willingness to be our advisor. We really appreciated every single
minutes that he spent with us. Special dedication to Ms Chan Mei
Yoke as the advisor and guider to all Form 4’s student to complete
our thesis.

Lastly,we would like to say Thank You Very Much to everyone

who involved directly or indirectly in our project. We do appreciate
your good deed.
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ds.htm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_number

http://www.ipedr.com/vol17/29-CHHSS%202011-H10016.pd

(Modern science proof on halal food)

As the conclusion,we realize that most of the students has only a little bit
knowledges on HALAL product. Only certain of them knows about how to
detect HALAL product in neither food nor products. The remains only knows a
little bit about HALAL products,ways of detect and do some research. World
today witness the phenomena of people not concerning about some
informations on pros and cons of having HALAL product. So we as students
should take our own insiatives towards healthy lifestyle.
There are some drawbacks in carrying out this study, especially when
conducting the survey :

1. There were a few respondents who did not answer the questions as they
were supposed to. They even wrote nonsense and new survey forms had
to be distributed to make up the total of 100 respondents.
2. The total number of male and female respondents is not in the same
ratio as there are 56 males and 44 females.
3. We faced some problems to choose our title and cannot managed time
well.
INTRODUCTION
FOOTNOTE
SYNOPSIS
SHORTCOMINGS
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
APPENDIX
RESULTS
 The Benefits of Eating Halal Food

As we know, all Muslims must choose halal products as the religion ask them to
do so. But, do you know the reasons? Actually,there are many benefits for
choosing halal product which is contain permitted ingredients. One of the
reasons is halal food help to maintain one’s healthiness. All of the halal
products use ingredients which is not harmful to our health. The characteristics
of halal food is it must be clean and free animal shortening. For meat and
poultry it must be slaughtered according to Islamic dietary laws. Serving
appropriate vegetarian or plant-based foods is encouraged. Besides, halal food
reduce one’s risk to suffer from serious diseases as it does not contain virus. If
the food contains non-permitted ingredients such as animal shortening
especially pigs the food may contain many virus that can affect our health and
it is not impossible that the person who eat the food will eventually die.
Furthermore, halal food can improve Muslims’ faith. Those Muslims who are
eating haram food will lose faith and finally lead to do something bad. Thus,the
quality of Muslim will decreases.
 Efforts to increase the availability of halal food in
non-Islamic countries

Since the turn of the 21st century, there have been efforts to create organizations
such as the Muslim Consumer Group that certify food products as halal for Muslim
consumers in the USA.
Since 1991, some mainstream manufacturers of soups, grains, cosmetics,
pharmaceuticals, prepared foods, and other products, as well as hotels,
restaurants, airlines, hospitals, and other service providers have pursued the halal
market. These companies purchase halal-certified products. 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
oldest and most well-known halal certifier in the United States is called the Islamic
Services of America. Something that companies which intend to export halal products
must keep in mind, when choosing a certifier, is whether or not the certifier is
recognized by foreign governmental bodies.

 In 1986, the Islamic Meat & Poultry Company was founded in Stockton,
California. Islamic Meat & Poultry is a halal-only, U.S. Department of Agriculture-
inspected, hand-slaughtering and meat processing facility. This company follows
the principles of slaughtering and meat processing according to the Islamic
Shariʻah.

 In 2011, the Halal Products Certification Institute was established in California

and became the first worldwide corporation that certified halal consumer products
such as cosmetics, personal care products, and perfumes and fragrances. The
institute was established by Islamic intellectual scholars and Muslim scientists to
assure the dissemination of halal consumer products.
Also in Europe, several organizations have been created over the past 20 years in
order to certify halal products. A survey recently published by a French association of
Muslim Consumers (ASIDCOM) shows that the market of halal products has been
developed in a chaotic way. The certification organizations do not have a common
definition of "halal" nor agreed upon control procedures and traceability. The controls
implemented by individual agencies are all very different: it can go from an annual
audit of the slaughterhouse to checking each production with permanent controls in
place.
In South Africa, most chicken products have a halal stamp. The South African
National Halal Authority (SANHA) issues certificates and products bearing this logo
range from water, snacks, and even meat-free products (which may contain non-halal
ingredients). The South African National Halal Authority also licenses the usage of
the Halal logo in restaurants where the food is halal in addition to no alcohol or pork
products being served.
One of the first halal food companies in the USA is Midamar Corporation, established
in 1974 and located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is also one of the first companies in the
USA to sell USDA approved and halal-certified US protein products to the Middle
East and South East Asia. The certification agency Islamic Services of America (ISA)
was established in 2004 and is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Islamic Services of
America certifications are recognized by some Islamic countries.
In the Dearborn, Michigan, the home of one of the largest Muslim and Arab
populations in United States, some fast-food restaurant chains such as
theMcDonald's Corporation have introduced halal chicken nuggets and chicken
sandwiches.
In the United Kingdom, China, Malaysia, or Singapore, halal fried chicken restaurants
having thousands of outlets serve halal foods, such as theChicKing Fried
Chicken, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Brown's Chicken, and Crown Fried
Chicken companies. As of February 2009, Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in the
U.K. began to sell halal meals in several restaurants.
Also, in New York City there are numerous halal food carts in business which serve
gyros, chicken platters, and other halal fast foods, whereas in Europe, there are
many Muslim-owned döner kebap shops.
A law passed by a county in Michigan in 2005 bans the sale, distribution, or
production of food mislabeled "halal," when county authorities determine that the food
does not meet Islamic dietary standards. Similar laws protect kosher foods in most of
the United States, and in many other countries, states, or provinces.
In 2008 and 2009, twelve stores in the Mary Brown's chain
in Ontario and Alberta became 100% halal. Numerous halal meat markets also exist
in Southern Ontario and Metro Vancouver.
Popeye's Chicken in Ontario is mostly not halal-certified (depending on location);
however, a legal dispute broke out between a group of 14 Muslim franchisees and
the chain over the company's decision to use machine-slaughtered birds. The
fourteen Toronto area outlets are instead using hand-slaughtered halal birds, and are
suing the company so that they can continue to do so.
Thailand and the Philippines also have a noticeable population of Muslims and halal-
meat shops country-wide.
Within the People's Republic of China, which has a sizable Hui Muslim minority
population, halal food is known as qingzhen (Chinese: 清真; pinyin: qīngzhēn; literally
"pure truth"). Halal restaurants run by Hui Chinese resemble typical Chinese food,
except that they do not serve pork. Dishes specific to Hui Chinese are known
as Chinese Islamic cuisine.
 New Malaysian Halal Food Park To Boost Trade

KUANTAN,MALAYSIA, Oct.17th 2007 (News Agencies): The Halal Food Park to be

developed near the East Coast Highways toll junction in Gambang, Pahang has the
potential of becoming a world halal market, the Bernama News Agency reported.
And the upcoming East Coast Highway, which will connect the east coast with Klang
Valley, will be an important factor in the successful development of this food park, the
chairman of the Pahang State Committee for Science, Innovation, Information and
Communication Technology Datuk Mohd Sharkar Shamsuddin told Bernama here
Monday.
He said 68 small and medium-sized companies involved in the livestock and food
processing industries will be working with Prima Agri-Products Sdn Bhd (Prima) in
the park.
Prima, which has vast experience in the area of processing, production and
distribution of halal food products, will provide the basic infrastructure and facilities,
an administration centre, cold storage and laboratory facilities for the use of the SMIs
involved in the project.
Mohd Sharkar said the SMIs which have been moving individually or in small groups
would now be more integrated through the food park, aided by
 Ways to create awareness among students to consume
Halal products

School plays an important role to ensure students are expose to the

knowledges about HALAL products. Students must know benefits and
disbenefits for consuming HALAL food. This will eventually create an
awareness to the students and stop buying food which contains non-
permitted ingredients. Next, parents should never buy food that do
not have valid HALAL logo for their children since they were kids.
Parents must be a role-model or exemplary person that shows a
great attitude so that their children can be like them. Make sure that
you know what your children buy or eat. Early prevention is better
before it was too late where your children used to eat haram food.
 Numbers of respondents

Female
44%

Male
56%

A survey was conducted on the awareness of students on HALAL

product.About 100 respondents involve in this survey,about 44% are
from female while another 56% are from the males.
 Percentage of people who prefer to buy
import food

No
47%
Yes
53%

From these survey on percentage of students who prefer buying

import food,we can see that 47% of them did not prefer buying
import products. But 53% of the repondents said that would prefer
import food more.These have shown that most of us,Malaysian does
not support completely on local products.But what they did not
realize is that,they did not take full action on ensuring the HALAL
ingredients used in the products.
 Ways to ensure they are buying halal
products

12%

Refer to the food label

Refer to the internet
24%
Ask elder people

64%

From the respondets view,most probably 64% of them refer on the

food label before buy something.While 24% of the respondents will
check on internet for further information towards the product
ingredient.This basically create an awareness among them on HALAL
product.Lastly,12% said to ask elder people either the benefits or
disbenefits on buying the product.
 Awareness about the real halal logo

Yes
No

Besides,on awareness of students about the real HALAL logo,

majorities of them aware about HALAL logo.But minorities of the
respondent said That they unsure which HALAL logo is true.
 Knowledge on halal facts

Yes
45%
No

55%

Basically,it is important for us to know on halal facts,so it is safer and

will convince them more before buying the product. 55% of them
response on yes when ask about their knowledge on halal facts.While
45% of the respondents said they only know a bit about the infos
 Awareness about E codes on food label

24%

Never mind,just buy it

Stop buying the product
50%
Do some research on internet

26%

Based on the pie chart above it is shown that half of the respondents
they will do some researches on products.While 26% of them said
they will stop buying the product.24% said to not even care on E
codes.In conclusion,not all E codes consist of unhalal ingredients.But
still some of them shown that the codes are just helping people
towards smoother food system.
 Reasons for choosing halal products

To ensure our healthiness

43%
Just because our religion

57%

Based on the pie charts above it is shown that most of muslim

students really convince that Halal product can ensure our
healthiness in future.But still 43% of them says that it is important to
the muslims as the religion ask us to follow rules on choosing food or
product
 Awareness of benefits for choosing halal
products

Yes
No

Based on pie chart above most of the students know the benefits on
having Halal food in they daily life.
 RESPONDENTS’ OPINION ON FUTURE ACTIONS SHOULD BE
TAKEN BY THE GOVERNMENT

Check the product before sell it

Do some researches

Regular check-up on food company

Enforcing the law

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

Based on the charts above it is clear that most of the respondent

encourage the government to enforce the laws of food processing.It
proven by the number of students which are 20 and above students
response to this.Secondly,it is imporatant for the government to have
regular check-ups on food company.These is to ensure that they will
not break the laws that are made by the government.Next is the
government can check the product before sell it to the public.This is
one way of ensuring that ingredients used is saved for the public.Last
but not least,the government are encourage to make some
research.These are to help the people to know better of Halal
products and latest infos on them.
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KAJIAN LAPANGAN

AWARENESS OF STUDENTS ON HALAL PRODUCTS

KHAIRINA KHALID 13198/409

NUR ADILA AHMAD AZIZI 13 /401

KAJIAN LAPANGAN

AWARENESS OF STUDENTS ON HALAL PRODUCTS