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Health
Glam Halal | July-august. 2020
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BY CAMILIA REZALI
Halal, from
grass to
glass
Malaysia’s No 1 dairy supplier for food
services, Fonterra Brands, holds stringent
halal standard
To ensure standards for food safety
and quality are not compromised,
Fonterra Brands Malaysia Sdn Bhd
incorporates its delicate manufacturing
process with an essence of
Halalan Toyyiban.
The company provides halal-certified
New Zealand made dairy, serving more than
2.7 million glasses of milk to Malaysians
every day. Today, Fonterra Brands’ operation
is alive and kicking, earning its place
as the No 1 dairy supplier for foodservice in
Malaysia and Singapore.
There are approximately 700 staff in
Malaysia working to deliver high-quality
nutrition through its key brands including
Anlene, Fernleaf, CalciYum, Anchor, Anchor
Food Professionals, Chesdale, Perfect Italiano,
Anmum, Mainland, and New Zealand
Milk Products (NZMP).
According to the Director of New
Product Development, Scientific and Regulatory
Affairs of Fonterra Brands Malaysia,
Megawati Suzari, the company upholds
a stringent halal standard in Malaysia. It
meets the highest halal standards certified
by the Department of Islamic Development
Malaysia (JAKIM) as well as the relevant
NOVELTY PRODUCT:
Fonterra Brands has
experts to ensure the
presence of continuous
innovation.
recognised foreign Halal certification
bodies and authorities.
Besides respecting halal, the company
also upholds to the concept of Toyyiban,
a term mentioned in the Qur’an advising
Muslima to eat “good things”, which refers
to wholesomeness, good quality, nutritional,
safe, hygienic, and healthy edibles.
She said: “The concept of Halalan Toyyiban
for Fonterra Brands starts from animal
welfare. It is about the types of food we feed
the cows and giving them a good rest as that
is also a part of the Halalan Toyyiban.
“The process goes beyond what can and
cannot be added, and good manufacturing
practices and hygiene practices.”
Fonterra Brands takes every precaution
to ensure the supply chain meets the strictest
halal standards. The company ensures
all ingredients used in the manufacturing
process are halal-certified. Non-halal
materials are barred from all of its manufacturing
sites.
Even both factories and office located in
Shah Alam and Kota Kemuning are certified
halal premises.
“We clean our manufacturing sites in
a way that actively prevents any chance
of contamination from other sources. We
also work with distributors who are halalcompliant
to avoid any contamination of
our consumer brands.
“Our team members are a part of the
committee to look into the Malaysian
standard so that we can bring the industry’s
voice where we look into the developments
of the halal standard,” shared Megawati.
The company also strives to create the
awareness that halal is not only for Muslims.
The effort to create awareness starts
from its manufacturing centres where they
carry out programmes from a few years
back to educate the workers that halal is
not only applicable to Muslims.
As the company serves halal, highquality
dairy nutrition from New Zealand
to Malaysia and also Singapore consumers
for more than 60 years, it is proven that
Fonterra is a trusted brand.
On top of that, Fonterra runs on a strategic
regional manufacturing plant, with
Susumas powder plant has the capacity
to produce 30,000 metric tonnes annually