Guest editorial

Large-scale production of halal food opened the path to a trade industry that has now successfully expanded into other areas of the market, which led to the promotion of other halal products such as Islamic banking and finance, health care, cosmetics, lifestyle, hospitality and tourism. In the context of regulatory and governance, the fact that the global halal economy is expanding by leaps and bounds provides significant challenges to the policy makers and regulators in framing an eco-system that not only support but also nurtures and sustains the growth of the industry. [...]this legal framework, standards and governance, that defines “halal-ness” in its attributes, or “conformity with Islamic practices” must be world best, second to none. The third paper by Mohd Imran Khan, investigates the various risks in halal food supply chain using the multi criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach to identify the various risk elements in halal supply chain. The factors measured in his paper, among others, include raw material cost risks, supplier fairness, raw material integrity issue, halal market and the rest.