Haribo, one of Europe’s biggest sweet manufacturer selling its product in more than 150 countries since 1920. In Istanbul, Turkey the product produce by Pamir Gida Sanayi. The company have send their request for Halal Certification to us through our website www.licence2halal.com. The two products to be certified halal are - Jelly Fruitgums and Moeshmallow. According to their General Manager, Hakan Zor this is to cater to their muslims customers. They have used halal certified gelatine. Haribo Turkey was also certified Global Standard for Food Safety (BRC) and International Food Standard (IFS). Once documents received was processed and successfully gone through desk audit by our Food Technologist and Halal Supervisor, we have made site visit to audit the factory in Hadimkoy-Istanbul-Turkey in February 2010. The site audit is compulsary pre-halal certification requirement. We was impressed with the commitment showed by Mr Zor together with his team of Production Manager, Abdullah Ugur Sahbaz and Quality Assurance Manager, Gulsah Yalcin in establishing food safety standard in their factory.
The site audit was accompany by both Production and Quality Assurance Manager. The main objective was to confirm that their factory was halal compliance. We was looking into the whole production process which included the visit to Raw Material Storage area, Production Area and looking into related documents. We was inform that HACCP committee was overseeing all the food safety related issues. After the completion of the site audit visit, we compile all the information collected for our records purposes. All finding and recommendation was discussed and among the recommendation made was for them to establish Halal Committe together with their existing HACCP committee. As a result of this, Pamir Gida Sanayi was successfully certified Halal. 
We would like to congratulate them in particular Mr Hakan Zor together with his team for their commitment in Halal and Food Safety Standard. We hope to meet them again next year as part of our yearly site audit for Halal Certification. We wish them all the best.
Lastly BJ on behalf of licence2halal.com team would like to thank all new friends that he get know in Istanbul for their help and support. Everlasting memories from the beautiful Aya Sofya, Blue Mosque to the beautiful people of Turkey.
