Prepare for your audit

All applicants

• Your company licence and the details of every site in scope
• A list of the products to be certified
• A process flow chart for each product or product group
• A list of every ingredient, additive, processing aid and packaging material, with the supplier and the origin (animal, plant, mineral, synthetic or microbiological)
• Halal certificates or supplier declarations for animal-derived and other higher-risk materials
• Specification sheets or safety data sheets for lower-risk materials
• Cleaning and sanitation procedures, including what is used on shared equipment, and the cleaning records
• Your food safety or quality system documents, such as HACCP plans
• Staff training records
• Draft labels or artwork

Where you already run a halal management system

• Your halal policy and manual, and the name of the person responsible
• A traceability procedure and a procedure for handling non-conforming product
• Internal audit and management review records

Small producers do not need a full written system. As a minimum, TGHA asks for a short halal policy, an ingredient control procedure and traceability records.

Slaughterhouses

• Slaughter procedures and the slaughterer's competence records
• Records of the controls on stunning, where stunning is used, kept for the periods set in the UAE slaughter standard
• CCTV and device records kept for the periods set in the UAE slaughter standard
• Procedures for identifying, separating and disposing of non-halal carcasses

What to prepare for a quote (Certification Fees page)

To receive a costed proposal quickly, please have ready: the number and addresses of your sites, the number of production lines and shifts, your list of products and ingredients, your target export markets, and whether halal and non-halal products share any line or storage. Travel, the need for a translator, laboratory testing and the size of the workforce also affect the quote.