SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) says only hotels with halal certification are allowed to offer Ramadan buffet packages.
JAIS halal management section chief assistant director Wan Najmiah Wan Mohd Ali said 46 hotels in the state were halal-certified.
Here, in Shah Alam, she said, nine hotels possessed halal certification – Concorde Hotel, Grand Bluewave Hotel, Holiday Inn Glenmarie Hotel, Alami Garden Hotel, Accapella Suite Hotel, De Palma (Shah Alam) Hotel, Carlton Holiday Hotel and Suites; Laman Green The Boutique Hotel and Geno Hotel.
“Hotels that do not have halal certification are barred from offering Ramadan buffet packages,” she said.
“We do not know how the food is prepared and the cleanliness when dealing with raw food and so on.
“JAIS is monitoring 30 hotels without halal certifications that are suspected of offering buffet packages during Ramadan.”
Wan Najmiah said no action had been initiated so far, but Jais had advised these hotels to apply for halal certification.
“We would like to advise the public to check before breaking fast at hotels,” she said, adding that errant hotels could be punished under Order 4(1), Trade Descriptions (Definition of Halal) Order 2011 of the Trade Descriptions Act.