Australia: Breaking down halal red meat in new ways

The Australian Meat Industry Council has completed a project to develop a range of new resources to help promote the Australian Government Authorised Halal Program in overseas markets. The export of halal certified red meat has become an integral part of the success of the Australian processing and export sector with the Islamic Council of Victoria estimating that In 2021, Australia shipped around $2.36 billion worth of Halal certified meat products to the world. The many markets of the Middle East have always been the core of the halal certified trade for both beef and sheepmeat going back to the 1970s. Over the past two decades however, growth in beef markets like Indonesia and Malaysia as well as the growth in international Islamic communities in countries as diverse as the United States, Europe and even Japan has meant that most processors cannot ignore the importance of markets requiring halal certification. Today nearly all export sheepmeat processors have a halal ...