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Abstract
Halal food represents the type of food produced according to Islamic laws.
These laws forbid consummation of following food: pig meat and pig products,
alcohol, blood and specific additives. Halal certificate guarantees the standard of
animal breeding, way of slaughtering, technological processing of meat and meat
products according to demands of halal quality, respecting cultural and religious
values of Islamic community. Halal certificate means production according to highest
hygienic, veterinarian and sanitary standards, production without any components
or ingredients forbidden to consumers of Islamic religion. Halal standard is
compatible with other valid standards (HACCP etc.) related to food hygiene and
safety.
In this paper, authors are researching the significance of food produced by
halal standard, meant for consumers of Islamic religion, whose number in the
world is approximately 1,8 billions (2007). They have spent the total value of 280
billions of dollars on food (2007). Special attention has been given to research of
absorb power of these countries for beef, sheep and chicken meat. At the end, the
perspective of meat production and export from the Republic of Serbia to Halal
market has been shown.