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This report is to update readers on the new JAKIM halal requirements for processing plants of “Animal based further products, milk and egg products.”

This is an update to Post’s standing FAIRS report, with an update on JAKIM halal requirements for “animal based further products, milk and eggs products”; and guidelines on implementation....

Post forecasts fluid milk production to increase by 1.8 percent in 2018.

With per capita income of over $9,120 and a middle and upper class making up 50 percent of the population, Malaysia shows good potential for growth as a market for high value consumer products.

Malaysia has a dynamic hotel and restaurant industry. Changing lifestyles and growing middle class underpin demand.

Brazil’s coffee production for MY 2017/18 is revised down to 51.2 million 60-kg bags.

Malaysia’s retail sector is forecast to grow at 3 percent due to cautious consumer spending, increased subsidy rationalization and effects from the introduction of a goods and services tax....

The overall food processing sector is growing 3 percent per year, with dairy, bakery, and processed fish products leading.