Islam: UAE, Italy promoting halal food certification

DUBAI - The visit to the United Arab Emirates by a delegation from the Ministry for Economic Development and Invitalia, the government agency for the attraction of investments, has also been used to promote the certification of halal food, a new instrument focussing on the needs of Muslim clients, that opens up considerably to Muslim markets.

"The ministry is working on an ambitious project of halal certification, an instrument that allows a marriage of Italian excellence and the guarantee of production respecting Islamic rules, which brings significant potential for opening towards markets connected to precise religious principles," the director of the department of trade internationalisation at the ministry, Patrizia Giarratana, told ANSA. (...)