The Muslim Judicial Council has explained why bacon-flavoured Melrose carries a halaal certification.
Cape Town - The Muslim Judicial Council has come under fire. The Muslim community was outraged after Radio 786 posted a picture of the Melrose cheese spread with the MJC’s halaal symbol on their page over the weekend.
In the statement, the MJCHT says technically the spread is halaal as the bacon flavour is “synthetic”. But social media users accused the MJCHT of being greedy, with Mogammat saying the MJC was being “irresponsible yet again”. “The MJCHT has an agreement with the company not to print the MJC Halaal Trust halaal logo on the Melrose Spread product, depicting the word “bacon”, due to the fact that the word “bacon” cannot be reconciled with the term halaal.”The Daily Voice visited three retail stores on Sunday and found that the halaal symbo was only on the larger 400g Melrose bacon flavoured jars and not on the 250g container.
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