Bone & Hide Product

Understand Halal or Haram Bone & Hide Products

Halal Bone & Hide Products

Gelatine which is used in many Halal product manufacturer is another important animal product. The main sources are skin and bones.

The Halal product from skin basically involves an extraction process of several stages with increasing temperatures, filtration and concentration in a vacuum evaporator.

Halal product like bones would involve the removal of fat, demineralisation and extraction with dilute alkali.

Besides being a source of gelatine, bones when converted into bone meal and purified, is used as a natural source of calcium and phosphorus which can be used in paediatric food.

The hides of the cattle can be processed into edible crackers, while chicken skin can be emulsified to be used as ingredients in the production of emulsion type sausages.

Again if the bones and hides are not from the Islamic slaughtered animals these products can not be accepted. Pork and all pig products are prohibited and consider Haram.