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Indonesian Halal Certification Regulations for Cochineal Pigment
2025-05-15
Recently IndonesiaHalalCertification BodyFood industry practitioners often use it to addCarmine (carmine) Food coloringThe legal issues have caused a lot of discussion.
The food and beverage dyes currently in widespread use come not only from chemical ingredients but also from plant and animal sources.CarmineThat's what food coloring is.CarmineIt is a food coloring extracted from cochineal insects.
Cochineals are insects that live on cacti and feed on the plant's water and nutrients. Coleoptera insects have much in common with grasshoppers.
To this end, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in the33/2011 The Ulema Committee's decision on the law concerning the coloring of food and beverages with cochinealFatwa》 stipulates the cochineal food coloring method.
ShouldFatwaDepend on MUIFatwaCommittee Chair Hasanuddin AFProfessor and SecretaryKH Asrorun ReligionAt2011 Year8 moon10 Signed on 18th, regulating the use of food and beverage dyes extracted from cochineal (Karmin Dyes) As long as it is beneficial and harmless, it belongs toHalalfood.
ShouldFatwaThe regulations are based on multiple，The content is as follows
---Nothing was found to be forbidden to eat, except carrion, blood, or pork.--Because these are indeed filthy.--orNot in complianceSlaughtered animals.
existFatwaThe regulations also mention LPPOM MUIexist2011 Year5 moon4 The statement from the Fatwa Committee meeting on 28 July stated that cochineal, an ingredient in food and beverage dyes, does not pose a hazard. In some parts, cochineal resembles a grasshopper. Cochineal is also classified asOpen circulatory systeminsects.