McDonald's Arabia has announced imports of Halal chicken, to its 369 restaurants across the GCC region recorded more than 12,000 tons in 2012.

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the opening ceremony of the three day event entitled: "Towards the Effective Management of the Halal Industry," the Ministry Undersecretary Dr. Adel Al-Falah said: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs plays a major role in spreading Islamic knowledge among Muslims. The Islamic world is facing immense challenges concerning the food it consumes, which is often not guaranteed to be "halal."

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The board chairman of Kuwait’s Al-Wuhaib poultry company, Hamid Al-Wuhaib, said Kuwaiti poultry farm owners are suffering from the problems and challenges that come with the world-wide increase in production costs.

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Three commercial shops selling foodstuffs containing pork materials and lard have been sealed off by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

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The ministry of commerce and industry (MCI) recently began a media campaign in which it claimed to control meat prices during the Holy Month of Ramadan and stressed that consumers and citizens had nothing to worry about.

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Recession has hit the Meat Market in Shuwaikh area, and shop owners have given up because of low demand for Arab and imported sheep.

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The Kuwait Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAFR) has banned all poultry, eggs, and chicks from Sri Lanka because of the emergence of bird-flu cases in the country.

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A member of the Municipal Council, Jenan Bushahri, has revealed that a consignment of frozen chicken which was imported into the country through the Shuwaikh Port was unfit for human consumption, reports Annahar daily.

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The Government of Kuwait issued Ministerial Decree # 36/2012, lifting the ban on imports of US poultry meat, of all types and table eggs, effective immediately.

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In spite of the rise, current prices are seven per cent less when compared to the same period last year, according to the Kuwait Foodstuff Merchants and Manufacturers Union Chairman Abdallah Al-Baijan.

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Kuwait's Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources yesterday announced a ban on imports of birds and eggs from Iran.

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"The government took the right decision by closing poultry shops as many of them were in residential areas and were not following the required procedures while slaughtering chickens. Improper conditions cause health problems to those working in the shops and the consumers as well," Al-Watan Arabic daily quoted biology professor in the Science Sector at the Basic Training Faculty of Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Dr Bahija Behbehani, as saying.

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No advisory notice has been issued to the owners of live poultry outlets instructing them to shut down, according to staff at a number of these stores in Salmiya. Kuwait Times reports that although a number of Arabic language papers had reported the closure of some live poultry outlets in Kuwait as a "precautionary measure" to avert the possibility of any spread of the potentially deadly avian flu (bird flu) virus, workers at a number of these stores were adamant that they had received any such official notification.

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The Assistant Undersecretary for Commercial Inspection Affairs at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Abdullah Al-Ali has issued a series of directives to tighten the monitoring of markets to stamp out artificial price hikes and protect the consumers from cheats, according to Arab Times, citing Al-Shahed daily, which quoted reliable sources.

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The legal affairs committee of Kuwait Municipality yesterday (22 June) rejected a request by several poultry companies to grant them licences to establish poultry slaughterhouses in the farm area of Al-Wafra.

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Resolutions from the ‘First Gulf Conference on Halal and its Services’

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"The First Gulf Conference on Halal Industry and its Services". Organized by Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs State of Kuwait, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and GCC Standardization Organization.

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NBK Capital, an investment fund owned by the National Bank of Kuwait, or NBK, has acquired a 20 per cent stake in Turkey's leading aquaculture firm, Kiliç Deniz, according to a company statement.

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A new scandal is threatening to rock the country with reports that pork was distributed among an unidentified non-Muslim Asian community during Christmas and New Year celebrations last year and that the pork was distributed by employees of the Asian embassy, reports Al-Dar daily.

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A scientific researcher at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research has initiated a project aiming to improve food safety and production in the country as consumption of meat and poultry increases.

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A scientific researcher at KISR announced yesterday (22 September) that the increasing consumption of meat and poultry in the last period has led the Institute to start a project aiming to improve food safety and production in Kuwait.

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The health of at least 50,000 people is at risk after it was disclosed 17,000 cartons of chicken believed to be unfit for human consumption were distributed in the local market, reports Al-Qabas daily.

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Livestock Transport & Trading Co recently visited Uruguay for examining prospects of importing sheep from there. Another team is due to visit Mongolia, Georgia and Azerbaijan next week.

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ONE sentence probably best sums up the current level of demand for sheep in the Middle East region: “Just give me the sheep and I will buy them.” They were the words of one of the Gulf region’s largest livestock importers, Ahmad Al-Majed, deputy manager of international trading for the Kuwait Livestock Transport and Trading Company (KLTT).

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The governments of Philippines and Kuwait have agreed to expand trade and investments by exploring ways to improve trade relations and ease the flow of goods, services, and investments between the two countries

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Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund said it had sold its stake in US bank Citigroup, making US$1.1 billion in profit

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Opportunity is expected to knock for Canadian agri-food exporters through a new agreement on economic co-operation between Canada and Kuwait.

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Kuwait has suspended poultry imports from Spain and Russia after the discovery of bird flu in the two countries, the state news agency KUNA said on Thursday. The Gulf Arab

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Kuwait City: Kuwait's state news agency is reporting that several US soldiers passing through the country have been infected with swine flu.

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