A study of safety and hygiene towards processing on implementation of halal containers in South Korea

Abstract

The recent stream of halal industry focuses on the protection of domestic halal market by fortifying halal compliance to cut off discriminately the advance of foreign product. In that regard, the significance of halal logistics has been underestimated so far than others. Even though it is insisted that halal logistics acts as a crucial role in the halal industry, the majority of focus sights are realistically on the commodities prevailingly consumed by the Muslim customers whether it has a qualification with halal certification. But the halal logistics also account for a critical position in the halal industry. Since halal logistics is the initial factor firstly encountering with halal product apart from manufacture flow under halal compliance. In abbreviation, logistics industry is apparently a fundamental resource connecting market and consumer through a conveyance. Particularly, the use of the container for the halal cargoes is the most important component in halal conveyance during the overall process of halal trading. Because anything is not able to be delivered to overseas without proper storage to protect cargo in the period of navigation. Thus, the specific research related to the ocean-container supposed to use for halal cargo is needed for the establishment of an adamant definition for the maintaining halal container. The countries have less infrastructure, notion, and knowledge of the halal industry such as nations which have not settled Islam up as the national religion. Especially, the ultimate purpose of this study is to verify whether current logistic of Korea has possibility able to adjust halal logistics based on MS 2400:1-2010 to present status of Korean logistics with a probability of the acceptance of adopting exclusive container for halal freight. In addition, this research digs the conventional manual having pervaded in current logistics of Korea against halal compliance out through analysis estimating hygiene and safety of container influenced by external elements which are potential contaminant originated from the humidity and propagation of the bacteria, invasion of the insect into a container and evaluating processing and handling cargo related to mixed consolidation without specific classification between halal and Non-halal cargoes, unidentified document having not marked with halal certification such as B/L and C/O, D/O. The total issued factors are supposed to analyze by basing on MS 2400:1-2010.