Mobile Application on Halal Status Checking

• Main Author: Hashim, Mohamad Shamil
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2013
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13602/1/Shamil_15468.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13602/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

For a Muslims, to find and eat a halal is compulsory as stated long time ago in the Al-Quran and Hadith. Halal is not only comprised on food as usually understand by a non-Muslims but also on other daily product that need to be used. The communities nowadays are exposed to a lot of uncertainties in determining food's Halal status such as with the issue of fake Halal logo, non-Muslims food manufacturer, imported foods from non-Islamic country and many others. The purpose of the project is to study, design and develop a mobile application that will enable the Muslims to check food product Halal status in the market. The scope of this project is focused on manufactured food and the target user for this product would be the Muslims. Although there are an existing similar mobile application in the market, the initiative taken by the developer is to enhance the by developing all possible method for determining the halal status in just one application. An example of all possible method on checking the halal status developed in this system are Searching by the product name, Scanning the barcode on the product and capture a product’s label to be translated to understandable language for the user.