Halalan toiyyiban food handling practices: a review on street food vendors in Malaysia

The street food sector has become an important component of food distribution system in many cities in Malaysia particularly for midday meals. However, certain street-vended food can pose significant risk to consumers due to microbiological contamination. The concern of hygiene and halal become crit...

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Main Authors: Piee @ Shafiee, Nor Faradillah, Ab Karim, Muhammad Shahrim, Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar, Ungku Zainal Abidin, Ungku Fatimah
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Published: Academic Inspired Network 2017
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author Piee @ Shafiee, Nor Faradillah
Ab Karim, Muhammad Shahrim
Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar
Ungku Zainal Abidin, Ungku Fatimah
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Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar
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description The street food sector has become an important component of food distribution system in many cities in Malaysia particularly for midday meals. However, certain street-vended food can pose significant risk to consumers due to microbiological contamination. The concern of hygiene and halal become critical for Muslim consumers and also non-Muslim consumers in Malaysia. Thus, this paper aims to determine the matters of halalan toyyiban among street food vendors in a way to guarantee the food being serve to patron is safe and fit for consumption. Halal status is a certification awarded based on the application of food service operators to be certified. Currently, there is no certification made for the off-premise outlet such as street food vendors. Nevertheless, without the halal certification, it does not mean that they are the excluded group to practice halal and toyyib especially among Muslim vendors. Halal status is not only about the halal ingredients or halal sources but as well as the process of the whole food preparation should be following the halalan toyyiban practice. It is in line with the holistic concept of halalan toyyiban ‘from farming to fork’. This paper is using review analysis based on previous articles that has been done by other researchers. Literature review was conducted to gather all information of street food vendors. Based on the information gather, the concept of halalan toyyiban will recommend hoping to serve better food for Muslim community who consume the food and nurture the awareness of Muslim vendors to practice halalan toyyiban in their business. Thus, this paper will contribute to the body of knowledge in the technical
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spelling upm-543562020-01-15T07:27:34Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54356/ Halalan toiyyiban food handling practices: a review on street food vendors in Malaysia Piee @ Shafiee, Nor Faradillah Ab Karim, Muhammad Shahrim Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar Ungku Zainal Abidin, Ungku Fatimah The street food sector has become an important component of food distribution system in many cities in Malaysia particularly for midday meals. However, certain street-vended food can pose significant risk to consumers due to microbiological contamination. The concern of hygiene and halal become critical for Muslim consumers and also non-Muslim consumers in Malaysia. Thus, this paper aims to determine the matters of halalan toyyiban among street food vendors in a way to guarantee the food being serve to patron is safe and fit for consumption. Halal status is a certification awarded based on the application of food service operators to be certified. Currently, there is no certification made for the off-premise outlet such as street food vendors. Nevertheless, without the halal certification, it does not mean that they are the excluded group to practice halal and toyyib especially among Muslim vendors. Halal status is not only about the halal ingredients or halal sources but as well as the process of the whole food preparation should be following the halalan toyyiban practice. It is in line with the holistic concept of halalan toyyiban ‘from farming to fork’. This paper is using review analysis based on previous articles that has been done by other researchers. Literature review was conducted to gather all information of street food vendors. Based on the information gather, the concept of halalan toyyiban will recommend hoping to serve better food for Muslim community who consume the food and nurture the awareness of Muslim vendors to practice halalan toyyiban in their business. Thus, this paper will contribute to the body of knowledge in the technical Academic Inspired Network 2017-12 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54356/1/Halalan%20toiyyiban%20food%20handling%20practices.pdf Piee @ Shafiee, Nor Faradillah and Ab Karim, Muhammad Shahrim and Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar and Ungku Zainal Abidin, Ungku Fatimah (2017) Halalan toiyyiban food handling practices: a review on street food vendors in Malaysia. Journal of Islamic, Social, Economics and Development, 2 (6). pp. 385-394. ISSN 0128-1755 http://www.jised.com/archived.asm
spellingShingle Piee @ Shafiee, Nor Faradillah
Ab Karim, Muhammad Shahrim
Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar
Ungku Zainal Abidin, Ungku Fatimah
Halalan toiyyiban food handling practices: a review on street food vendors in Malaysia
title Halalan toiyyiban food handling practices: a review on street food vendors in Malaysia
title_full Halalan toiyyiban food handling practices: a review on street food vendors in Malaysia
title_fullStr Halalan toiyyiban food handling practices: a review on street food vendors in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Halalan toiyyiban food handling practices: a review on street food vendors in Malaysia
title_short Halalan toiyyiban food handling practices: a review on street food vendors in Malaysia
title_sort halalan toiyyiban food handling practices: a review on street food vendors in malaysia
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