Blood & Blood Derivatives
blood, animal blood, blood powder, dried blood, blood plasma, plasma protein, blood plasma protein, haemoglobin, hemoglobin, haemoglobin powder, hemoglobin powder, blood protein, porcine blood, bovine blood
What it is
Animal blood and separated fractions of blood, including plasma, plasma proteins and haemoglobin. These ingredients can provide binding, gelling, water-retention or colour functions in meat products.
Why BOTIA flags it
Blood and its derivatives — plasma, haemoglobin and blood proteins — are used for binding, gelling or colour in sausages and other processed meat products. In products such as blood sausage the blood is obvious; in others it can appear as “plasma”, “plasma protein” or “haemoglobin”, terms that do not contain the word blood. Codex explicitly includes blood among the sources excluded from foods carrying a halal claim.
BOTIA CAN
- Detect blood, plasma, plasma protein, haemoglobin and related blood-derived terms when they are declared.
- Explain that plasma and haemoglobin are blood fractions and show the animal-origin layer together with the objective Codex information relevant to a halal claim.
BOTIA CANNOT
- Determine the animal species when a generic term such as plasma or haemoglobin is used without a declared source.
- Make a religious determination about whether a person should consider a specific food permissible; BOTIA only shows the declared ingredient and what the cited standard says.