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STANDARDS & REGULATI
STANDARDS & REGULATIONSONS

The approval of Halal certified food to
UAE
3Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology or
ESMA, is the institute that working with Halal product that would
import to UAE which is control the imported Halal food that
must be certified from other institution that ESMA qualified
under the standard number UAE.S 2055-2 which about the
general requirement of Halal food. The food exporter or
manufacturer can check the institution that qualified by ESMA
in the website. For Thailand there’s one and only qualified
institute, it was The Central Islamic Council of Thailand
(CICOT). For the product that CICOT can certified the Halal
Certification was in these 4 categories which included the
perishable animal products, the perishable vegetables
products, products with long shelf life at room temperature,
chemical and biochemical manufacturing.
The food product export from Thailand to UAE has a slightly difficult but the
The requirements for Halal certified system is available to submit the documents online beforehand which can help
products the agricultural who want to import their products able to learn step by steps to
4In the prior step, food products which included or get these good opportunities from the high demand country as UAE.
contains animal meat as ingredients and need to export to UAE
must be certified ‘Halal’ from the institute that ESMA’s qualified
before. Moreover, that food products must follow the General More Information Service Info C012
Requirement for Halal Food code GSO 2055-1 and Animal
Slaughtering Requirement According to Islamic Rules code เอกสารอ้างอิง / References
GSO 993. For more information, please read in the manual สำำ�นัักง�นัม�ตรฐ�นัสำินัค้้�เกษตรและอ�ห�รแห่งช�ติ. 2564. กฎหม�ยด้้�นัก�รค้วบคุ้มค้ว�มปลอด้ภััย
about the control of food importer to Gulf Cooperation Council อ�ห�รนัำ�เข้้�ข้องประเทศค้่่ค้้�และก�รค้วบคุ้มคุ้ณภั�พสำินัค้้�เกษตรไทยก่อนัก�รสำ่งออก.
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