Halal Accreditation Council (HAC) Sri Lanka
The Halal Accreditation Council (Guarantee) Limited, or HAC, is the only entity certifying and conducting professional and internationally accepted compliance audits for Halal standards in Sri Lanka, duly incorporated under the Companies’ Act No. 7 of 2007. The HAC was founded by eleven founder members representing diverse backgrounds including academia, business, professional organizations, medicine and technology. An organization of repute, HAC is certified for ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management System (QMS) certification by the Sri Lanka Standards Institute. The council is accredited by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Accreditation Centre (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait) based on standards GSO 2055-2:2015 & ISO/IEC 17065:2012 and is globally recognized by leading authorities which include, JAKIM (Malaysia), MUI (Indonesia), ESMA (UAE), MUIS (Singapore), CICOT (Thailand), to name a few. The scientific, systematic certification process followed by HAC is supported by 40 full-time employees including Food Technologists and Professionals, who are involved in the detailed process of ensuring that raw materials used in the manufacture of food are halal compliant. HQC is officially accredited and recognized from Halal Accreditation Council (HAC) Sri Lanka.