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Is your halal certifier recognised where you are selling?
A halal certificate is only worth what the destination authority says it is worth. Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore each publish their own list of foreign certification bodies.
The three lists do not agree. A certificate from a body that is not on the right one will not clear the border, however good the audit was.
Choose your certification body
Halal Montréal Certification Authority Inc.
Brossard, Quebec
Recognised by 3 of 3: Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore
Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of Canada
Mississauga, Ontario
Recognised by 2 of 3: Indonesia, Singapore
Halal Monitoring Authority
Scarborough, Ontario
Recognised by 1 of 3: Malaysia
Halal Transactions, Inc.
Mississauga, Ontario
Recognised by 1 of 3: Singapore
Your certifier is not on this list
Two different things look the same from here, and they have opposite consequences.
All three registers were read filtered to Canada, so a body based anywhere else will not appear above even where it is recognised.
Plenty of Canadian producers hold certificates from American or international bodies that these authorities accept perfectly well.
A Canadian body that is not above is a body none of the three registers named when we read them.
That is worth acting on before you commit to a certification programme, and it is the cheapest thing on this page to check.
Why the three lists differ
Each authority appoints its own bodies on its own terms and audits them on its own cycle, so the lists were never going to match. Of the 4 Canadian bodies across these registers, exactly one, HMCA, is on all three. That is the single most useful thing a Canadian exporter can know about halal certification, and it is invisible unless you read all three.
Malaysia
Names 2 Canadian bodies: HMCA, HMA.
Indonesia
Names 2 Canadian bodies: HMCA, IFANCC.
Singapore
Names 3 Canadian bodies: HMCA, IFANCC, Halal Transactions.
The other three markets on this route do not run a foreign-certifier recognition list of this kind. That is a fact about those markets rather than a gap in what we have read. What we publish and where it comes from.