(National-UAE) A charity that certifies halal products in Britain won a legal fight after being accused of unfairly controlling the market by insisting its members sold meat only from animals that were slaughtered under its strict code.
The Halal Monitoring Committee persuaded a judge to throw out the case brought by a group of butchers and wholesalers who said it was unreasonable for the charity to withdraw its approval from companies that sold the meat of animals that were stunned before killing.
The committee ran a certification programme for the sellers of meat from abattoirs it had reviewed.
Under the labelling initiative, the retailers were allowed to display yellow window stickers stating their products were from slaughterhouses that had been approved by the HMC.
