Certification
Halal (e.g. IFANCA Crescent-M)
Halal certification confirms a product is permissible under Islamic dietary law. Coffee is inherently halal, so certification mainly matters for flavoured, instant and ready-to-drink products and for export markets that require it. There is no single global halal body; IFANCA, founded in 1982 and based near Chicago, is one of the main US certifiers.
- Register
- Not publishedWhether the register is open was not established
- Founded
- 1982
- Run by
- Various halal certification agencies; IFANCA (Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America) as US example
- Covers
- Handlers and traders
What it requires
In this atlas's own wordsThe agency reviews the product's ingredients and production process, audits the facility and its equipment and cleaning, may require substitution of ingredients that do not meet its guidelines, then issues a halal certificate and authorises its mark on the package. For coffee the main concerns are flavourings, alcohol-based extracts and shared lines.
Countries active
No country list recorded.
Checking a claim
The register
Register status not published
No register address recorded.
IFANCA lists certified companies and products on its site; no open dataset or licence was found. Halal bodies differ by country, so there is no single register.
Logo use
Each agency uses its own registered mark; IFANCA uses the Crescent-M service mark.