JAKIM halal certification and recognition for overseas companies.

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Choose your pathway: two routes to JAKIM halal from abroad.

Pick the route that matches how your organisation is set up:

1. For certification bodies, Islamic organisations and foreign agencies

   Foreign Halal Certification Body (FHCB) development

   Build and align your own halal certification body to JAKIM's requirements.

   We help overseas organisations set up the standard operating procedures, audit governance and operating framework that JAKIM's guidelines ask of a recognised body, and prepare them for JAKIM's evaluation. JAKIM alone decides recognition: 96 bodies in 49 countries or regions are on its list of 21 August 2026.

   Explore the FHCB requirements →

2. For overseas manufacturers, brand owners and exporters

   Halal International Program (direct plant certification)

   JAKIM audits your factory and issues the halal certificate.

   Since 1 January 2024, a factory outside Malaysia can get JAKIM halal certification through a company that represents it in Malaysia (a subsidiary, importer, distributor, agent or branch), ending in an on-site audit by JAKIM's own officers. Parts 02 to 09 below cover it step by step.

   Explore factory certification →

JAKIM's FHCB page · JAKIM's list, 21 Aug 2026 · JAKIM's international-manufacturing notice

Who can apply? A company in Malaysia, for the factory.

Under the Halal International Program the factory abroad does not apply on its own. JAKIM opens the application to companies registered in Malaysia, and the applicant must represent the factory. The applicant must be one of these:

• Subsidiary companyA company in Malaysia that is part of the same group
• ImporterThe company that brings the product into Malaysia
• Distributor or traderThe company that sells it on in Malaysia
• Agent in MalaysiaThe factory's appointed agent
• BranchA branch in Malaysia, also named in JAKIM's notice

The applicant goes with JAKIM's auditors throughout the audit trip (part 05), and JAKIM deals with the applicant directly. MNS Modulaz does not apply for it.

JAKIM notice: "Application is opened for companies registered in Malaysia"

What are the conditions to apply? Some for the applicant, some for the factory.

The applicant in Malaysia and the factory abroad each have to meet conditions before the application goes in.

The documents JAKIM asks for

JAKIM's notice lists fifteen documents to send with the application form (its Table 1):

1. A cover letter: brief information on the application and a summary of raw materials or ingredients
2. The applicant's company registration in Malaysia
3. The factory's manufacturing licence from its local authority
4. The Halal Executive's certificate and appointment letter (manufacturer and/or applicant); the Halal Executive must be Muslim
5. Identity card copies and appointment letters of two Muslim workers (if any)
6. Halal Assurance System documents: the manual or procedure for a first application or a new manufacturer
7. A halal certificate or product specification for every raw material or ingredient, in the order of the MYeHALAL raw-material list
8. The same for processing aids, water filters and purification included
9. An NPRA manufacturing licence (pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, if applicable)
10. An MDA establishment licence, medical device registration and ISO 13485:2017 (medical devices only)
11. A product processing flow chart
12. The packaging artwork
13. The factory layout plan
14. The factory location map
15. Other manufacturer documents, such as halal certificates, HACCP, GHP, GMP and TQM (if applicable)

Conditions as MNS Modulaz sets them out. Documents: JAKIM notice, Table 1 (our summary).

Which schemes are open? Five, under JAKIM's notice.

JAKIM offers the Halal International Program for five schemes of halal certification:

• Food productsFood and beverages
• PharmaceuticalsNPRA manufacturing licence, if applicable
• CosmeticsNPRA manufacturing licence, if applicable
• Consumer goodsConsumable goods
• Medical devicesMDA licence, registration and ISO 13485:2017

Abattoirs and meat-based products are not among them: for those, JAKIM's notice says to contact the Department of Veterinary Services Malaysia (DVS). Meat and poultry imported into Malaysia must be certified by a recognised foreign body, from a plant inspected and approved by JAKIM and DVS.

JAKIM notice · Table 1, items 9–10 · FHCB list, appendix p.66

What is the process? Apply from Malaysia; JAKIM audits the plant.

JAKIM's notice sets out the Halal International Program in these steps:

1. FactoryRuns a Halal Assurance System, with JAKIM's manuals MPPHM 2020 and MHMS 2020 as the guidelines. Its documents go with the application.
2. ApplicantFills in JAKIM's application form for international manufacturing, on MYeHALAL International: one form for one factory, registering at most 100 products.
3. ApplicantSends the form with the documents in JAKIM's Table 1 (part 03).
4. JAKIMAudits the manufacturing plant: at least four days, two audit days and two days' round trip, one manufacturing address only. The applicant goes with the auditors throughout the trip.
5. JAKIMCertifies the products. Every certificate under the procedure is valid for 2 years.

The applicant deals with JAKIM itself; no consultant can apply or deal with JAKIM on its behalf. Questions on the procedure go to JAKIM's Halal Management Division in Putrajaya: +60 3-8892 5000, unitluarnegara.halal@gmail.com.

JAKIM notice, international manufacturing, from 1 January 2024

What are the fees? By where the plant is.

The Halal International Program's fees depend on where the factory is, with a separate charge for processing the documents:

• RM2,100A plant in Southeast Asia
• USD 2,100A plant outside Southeast Asia
• RM200Document processing

Fees as MNS Modulaz gives them, October 2026. JAKIM's notice does not list them: confirm the current amount with JAKIM (+60 3-8892 5000, unitluarnegara.halal@gmail.com), and ask who pays the auditors' travel, which the notice does not say. RM = Malaysian ringgit; USD = US dollars.

A product made in Malaysia by an overseas-registered company pays the domestic manual's fees instead: every JAKIM fee.

FHCB or Halal International: what is the difference?

The difference is who certifies the factory. Under FHCB, a body in the factory's own country certifies it, on JAKIM's behalf. Under the Halal International Program, JAKIM audits and certifies the factory itself, and a company in Malaysia makes the application.

JAKIM certificate vs a recognised foreign certificate sets out what each certificate means for a company in Malaysia.

What does the Halal International Program give a factory? JAKIM's own certificate.

For a factory outside Malaysia, the Halal International Program means certification by JAKIM itself, applied for by the company that already represents it in Malaysia.

• Certified by JAKIMJAKIM's own auditors audit the factory, and JAKIM issues the certificate.JAKIM notice
• Applied for by its partner in MalaysiaThe subsidiary, importer, distributor, agent or branch that represents the factory in Malaysia makes the application.JAKIM notice
• One factory, up to 100 productsOne application form covers one factory and registers at most 100 products.JAKIM notice
• Valid 2 yearsEvery certificate under the procedure is valid for 2 years.JAKIM notice
• JAKIM's own manualsThe factory's Halal Assurance System follows MPPHM 2020 and MHMS 2020, the manuals JAKIM uses for halal management in Malaysia.JAKIM notice
• A route in useIn 2023 JAKIM carried out 32 audits abroad, in Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, China, Korea and Singapore, and printed 92 certificates for overseas-manufacturing applications.JAKIM annual report 2023, pp.150–151

JAKIM notice · JAKIM annual report 2023

Working with MNS Modulaz: both programmes, and training abroad.

MNS Modulaz Sdn. Bhd. (SSM 202401031735) is a halal consultancy and training company in Bukit Beruntung, Selangor, Malaysia, and one of JAKIM's strategic partners (Rakan Strategik MIHA). It works with overseas companies on both programmes, and with halal certification bodies abroad.

• Foreign Halal Certification Body (FHCB)Which recognised body fits the factory, and what JAKIM's list and the Malaysian rules ask of the product.JAKIM's FHCB page
• Halal International ProgramFor a factory outside Malaysia that wants Halal JAKIM: getting the applicant in Malaysia and the factory ready for the application and the audit.JAKIM notice
• Halal Overseas TrainingHalal training for foreign halal certification bodies, and advice to halal certification bodies on halal matters.MNS Modulaz

On MNS's Tahniah ("congratulations") posters, each with its new JAKIM halal certificate:

• DJJ Food Industry
• YCM Food Industry
• Sunfly Manufacturing
• RHS Chemical Sdn Bhd

MNS Modulaz's services and the team are on their own pages.