Committed to serve high quality Halal products to its customers in the Middle East, McDonald’s is keen to attend to every single detail to reach this objective. The company dedicates enormous efforts and research entailing time, money and human resources to ensure that all procedures are Halal.

As a result, all products served at all McDonald's restaurants in the Middle East are 100% Halal, inspected and approved by local authorities and Islamic authorities at the countries of export.

Choosing the Suppliers
Knowing that suppliers are a major player in fulfilling its promise and adhering to its social responsibility, McDonald’s ensures 100% eligibility before adding any resource to its database of approved suppliers. To qualify as a McDonald’s supplier, they must fully meet global official benchmarks as well as McDonald’s internal food safety standards, product specification and farm biosecurity policies. In addition, they must also adhere to social responsibility policies on aspects concerning animal welfare, animal feed, as well as prohibition of deforestation and use of antibiotics as growth promoters and above all Halal.

As Halal incorporates extreme measures of animal welfare; and goes beyond being merciful to the mere body of the animal to considering its soul, McDonald’s corresponds to those measures by the book, whereby:

Adhering to Halal procedures at all stages, McDonald’s applies strict measures at the level of the suppliers and slaughter houses, whereby: