WHF 2010 – GM & HALAL WORKSHOP REPORT
Dr. Hani Mansour Al-Mazeedi Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
Dr. Hani Mansour Al-Mazeedi is an Associate Research Scientist at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. He was one of the pioneers (since 1979) who started promoting Halal in a holistic manner integrating HACCP and Halal, and taking the concept across the whole supply chain. His work has taken him to food industries and slaughterhouses in the world to closely watch the Halal slaughtering services and food processing techniques in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, USA, France, Brazil, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Syria, in addition to Kuwait. He has published several books in Arabic, the first of which was in 1998 titled ‘Concepts on Food Hygiene’. Other book titles he has published include ‘Practical Guide to Food Safety’, ‘My Food’, and a two-part series titled ‘Index of Official papers related to Food and Slaughter according to Islamic Rites, for the period of 1979-2009’. Dr. Al-Mazeedi was part of an official visit to McDonald’s at the Hamburger University in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where he introduced the McHalal System for McDonald’s international. He was awarded The Halal Journal Award for ‘Outstanding Personal Achievement in the Halal industry’ in 2009, is a regular contributing writer for The Halal Journal magazine, and is presently organising Kuwait’s first Workshop which will be held later this year in Kuwait, in September 2010.
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