Canadian Halal Foods
Welcome to Canadian Halal Foods
Last Updated on Friday, 16 April 2010 23:25 Written by WebMaster Tuesday, 12 August 2008 10:00
The Muslim Consumer Group for Food Products is a non-profit and non-political organization, incorporated in 1993 as Halal foods educational and Halal certification organization for Muslims consumers and food industry. Muslim consumers in Canada are in great need to know the Halal status of food products in Canadian supermarkets. Alhumdulillah MCG is grateful to Allah Subhanahu Wa Taala for providing this service to Muslims in Canada. This web site will educate them about requirements for Halal foods. We are the only Halal certifying organization whose Halal certification is acceptable to every Muslim consumer because it is based on strict Islamic dietary requirements.
Our Halal symbol H in triangle appears on many food products, and ingredients. We follow the Islamic dietary requirement of no added ethyl alcohol to food products such as in natural and artificial flavors, vanilla extract and alcohol containing products such as naturally brewed soy sauce. We bring complex food processing knowledge to Muslims and its impact on Islamic dietary requirements. Our main purpose is to help Canadian Muslims to bring only Halal food products to their homes and Masajid.
What we do
Last Updated on Monday, 19 April 2010 02:53 Written by WebMaster Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
We educate Muslims consumers and food industry about Halal food products and Halal food ingredients through our two web sites. We answer question from Muslims regarding food products through e-mails and we have a toll free Halal Food Hot Line to answer question about Halal food products in supermarkets, food ingredients, Halal personal care products and Halal on the counter medicines.
We go to Masajid or Islamic center for Questions & Answers sessions. We participate questions/answers session on radio program.
We Halal certify non-meat food products and food ingredients for different food companies. We Recently Halal Certified various vegetable oils for Y & Y Distribution company of Montreal, QC Canada. Inshallah these oils with our Halal symbol will be available in Montreal and Toronto supermarkets
Recent Research on Food Products in 7 supermarkets of Toronto, Ontario area:
In April 2009 Muslim Consumer Group has completed the research and collected the data of food products in 7 supermarkets of Toronto, Ontario area. The total products researched were 2234 in 7 different supermarkets excluding the meat and meat-by products and assign the following status: Halal, Halal if no alcohol is used in flavor, Not Halal
The above status were assigned on the basis of Muslim Consumer Group's criteria as reported on this website. The 7 supermarkets researched in Toronto area are:
Food Basic Supermarket, Loblaw Supermarket, Loblaw Superstore, Metro (Previously Dominion) Supermarket, No Frill Supermarket, Price Chopper Supermarket, Wal- Mart Super Center
Inshallah the data on food products in seven supermarkets will be updated whenever it is necessary.
About the Webmaster:
Research in Canadian supermarkets is done by Syed Rasheeduddin Ahmed who has B.Sc(Agri), M.Sc(Agri) from A.P Agricultural University Hyderabad, India and a MS in Cereal Technology from North Dakota State University Fargo, ND. He is a senior food scientist consultant. He is the founder and president of Muslim Consumer Group For Food Products. Muslim Consumer Group For Food Products is educating Muslims throughout the world about Halal food ingredients and products and has been providing services in Halal food certification since 1993. Mr. Ahmed has started writing the Halal food book "A Comprehensive List of Halal Food Products in US Supermarkets" since 1991. MCG has established two well known Halal food websites. The www.muslimconsumergroup.com website was established in 2000 and logged in over 110 countries with a million hits in June 2009. The www.Canadianhalalfoods.com website was established in 2006 and logged in 61 countries.
He established the non- profit MCG organization while working for US food industry. He developed 18 new retail food products for supermarkets for various food companies including 10 new Bagel products for Kraft Foods USA under Lender's Bagel bakery brand. He developed number one selling frozen Big N Crusty bagels which brought 50 million dollars per year in sale for Kraft Foods USA. He also developed two Biscotti and one cookie products for Nabisco. Four new nutritional bars were developed by him in 2003 for MLO Products. Besides retail supermarket food products, he also developed 22 stuffing crumbs products for food service markets for the Newly Wed Food company in Chicago. Recently he developed a healthy Halal Orchard Fruits Nuts bars for Starbucks coffee company in 2007 through working as a senior food scientist consultant for Eli's Cheesecake company in Chicago. He has over 27 years of food industry experience including product development, quality assurance, nutritional analysis and hands on experience in food plants.
