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Halal Compliance on Drinking Water Industries: A Future Perspective

Demand of halal-certified drinking water is still debatable and this idea has been criticized as being overboard. From the Islamic perspective, clean water is required for direct consumption, cleaning of the human body (istinja’), and particularly important for ablution purposes. However, in this modern era, water has become an economic commodity and being traded as bottled water or tap water. Bottled and tap water go through extensive treatment and being produced via several steps of purification and separation processes. Some suggested halal critical control points during the treatment process should observe; the use of ion exchange and chelate resins during water softening process or polishing to produce ultra-pure water, the utilization of activated carbon as absorbent during pre-treatment process, and the use of harmful chemicals during disinfection process. For instance, pig-derived products were being used as charcoal powder and activated carbon in the production of drinking water. Thus, this forms a basis to the idea of novel halal compliance during water treatment for bottled or tap water and proposition of Halal Toyyiban Critical Control Points (HTCCP) for industrial drinking water. The awareness of halal standard is an important aspect in the production of drinking water in which the industries involved are required to comply with the standard requirement. The use of novel technology such as membrane technology might replace activated carbon technology for purification of drinking water.

Risk Mitigation Strategy for Mangosteen Business Using House of Risk (HOR) Methods (A Case Study in "Wijaya Buah", Blitar District, Indonesia)

The study aimed to determine the order of priority risk agents and risk mitigation strategies that should be implemented by “Wijaya Buah” as a fruit wholesaler. This research used 2 phases of House of Risk (HOR) methods. HOR I was used to identify risk events and risk agents in mangosteen business based on the mapping of business activities using the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) version 9 level 2. HOR II then was used to determine the risk mitigation strategy based the relation between the risk mitigations and the risk agents. The results of the study showed that 19 risk events were identified with 27 risk agents. Based on the calculation of Aggregate Risk Potential (ARP), 1 risk agents became priority to be designed for mitigation strategies. In order to reduce the incidence of risk agent, 3 mitigation strategies should be applied in “Wijaya Buah”. Keywords: HOR; Mangosteen; Mitigation; Risk; SCOR