The Development Thai Food to Halal Food Standards
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The lack of restaurant management under Halal food standards is a reason for the obstruction of Thailand's market competition, especially Muslim customers with almost a quarter of the world's population. Thus, the objectives of the study were to study guidelines standardized accreditation of Halal food in Thailand and Building up guidelines for developing Standard of Halal food in Thailand. This study is qualitative research using in-depth interview 8 selected from 3 groups 1. Halal food experts 2. Staffs who related to process of accreditation for Halal food in Thailand 3. The owner of 2 restaurants. The findings indicated that at present, applying for Halal certification is more conducive to Halal food business because Muslim lead their life from believed of Allah (God) and cannot separate out at all. The legal Halal signs are very necessary requirements for Muslim consumers. The problems on the Halal Certification Process: 1. Lack of knowledge about complicated accreditation processing cause of very high expenses 2. Delayed of production process. 3. Different Standard of accreditations 4. Lack of Muslim employees in production process. The suggestions consist of develop standard Halal food supported for future accreditations, the government should develop policy to support the operation, businesses or community enterprises to have knowledge in applying for certification. Fee discount for building of motivation business for reaccreditations, More Muslim education institutes can get more experts for international standards supporting of Halal food.
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