INDONESIA-PROBLEMS WITH HALAL MEAT.
Some meat products in the Indonesian market were discovered containing pig meat, even though it had halal labels.
The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) stated late last week that it might have given halal certificates for dried beef products containing pork.
Pork content
The Food and Drugs Monitoring Agency (BPOM) said that pork content was found in at least five brands of dried beef products in the market.
"This is a public deception," BPOM head Husniah Rubiana Thamrin said at a news conference, while displaying the five products.
The five products were:
Cap Kepala Sapi Dendeng in a 250-gram package
Cap LIMAS Dendeng
Cap ACC Dendeng
Lezaaat Dendeng
and Cap 999 Dendeng
According to reports, all the packaging on these products say that they contained beef.
Producer misleads MUI
Further reports stated that Husniah said the producer Lezaaat Dendeng may have misled the MUI by giving halal samples at the examination and certification process.
Wild boar meat
Husniah noted that there is big possibility that those products have wild boar meat instead of pork that comes from farm bred pigs. "Wild boar meat costs only Rp 18,000 *around US$1.95* per kilogram, while beef is priced almost three times higher," Husniah added.
