The Punjab Halal Development Agency (PHDA) has published a 250 pages book containing shariah status of electronic codes or international numbering system (INS) telling the products are either halal, haram or doubtful. For reference, E Codes or INS is the three-code numbers traceability system printed on the label instead of ingredients name due to shortage of space. The system is developed and implemented by the European Union.
To analyse the E-codes, PHDA constituted a committee comprising the members Dr Vinai from Thailand, Abdul Rehman Youseri from Malaysia, Justice Khalil and Dr Faqir Muhammad from Pakistan and Shariah experts from Indonesia. For the online verification of codes, the PHDA has developed the online traceability system at http://phda.com.pk/index.php/e-code-traceability.
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