HALAL PHARMA
Amrahi pointed to the Medicines Partnership Programme established by the Department of Health, United Kingdom in 2002 as an example of providing informed choice for medicines. The programme promotes the concept of concordance – or shared decision-making - as an approach to help patients to get the most from their medicines. But even based on their past achievements alone, Muslims today
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actually have the innate right to halal medications. They should also have the right to choose, and be informed of, and to give consent for any use of non-halal medications, or at least porcine-derived medications, either on us or for our loved ones. In short, all pharmaceutical products must be properly labelled if it is sourced from animals either bovine or porcine. The mismatch is real. Currently, the global halal pharmaceutical
supply is meeting only 3% of the global halal demand. The estimated global demand for halal medicines, including the innovators, generics and biosimilar is worth approximately USD82 billion a year. Compare this against the global demand for all medicines, which surpasses the USD1 trillion mark annually. Spurred by various factors including the growth of the global Muslim population, the rising