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Certification Firm: Brazil’s 2018 Halal Food Exports May Hit $5 Billion
by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff

Brazilian halal food exports grew about 10 percent in 2018, the country’s largest halal certification firm said on Tuesday, despite fallout from a food sector scandal and a truckers’ strike that disrupted meat production last year.

FAMBRAS Halal estimates sales of Brazilian halal food, including chicken, beef, honey and cheese, rose to almost $5 billion in the period despite the industry’s multiple woes, it said in a statement.

“We failed to grow more as we had a very complicated year,” Ali Hussein El Zoghbi, vice-president at the certification company, said in the statement.

Continued at: https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/01/16/certification-firm-brazils-2018-halal-food-exports-may-hit-5-billion/