Dr Mohammed Lotfi is the director of the Australian Halal Food Services, personally providing the expertise having worked overseas for many years as a veterinary officer on meat inspection, veterinary public health and food control. His experience also includes a period as a meat scientist with the CSIRO Australia, Division of Food Sciences and Technology Australia, involved in their Meat Technology Program. Currently he is a professional member at the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Incorporate.
In the course of his academic studies and employment with the CSIRO Australia, he contributed in a number of Research Papers & Publications. He contributed the Islamic point of view on the issues raised in the following papers:
- Animal welfare aspects of Halal Slaughter.
- Major Problems with the Assessment of the Human Aspect of Halal Slaughter Process by Stunning.
- Thoracic stick after Halal Slaughter.
- Non- penetrated percussive stuning.
- Electronic immobilization after non-penetrated percussive stunning (Mushroom Head captive bolt stunning).
- Oesphages plug pre-Halal Slaughter.
- Design electric knife for use in Halal Slaughter
- The effect of low-voltage electrical stimulation on dressed lamb carcasses.
- The effect of low and high voltage electrical stimulation on beef carcasses.
- Slaughter animal according to the Islamic law.
- Halal Foods According to the Islamic Laws.
Dr Lotfi completed a Masters degree in the field of meat hygiene and meat Science, at the University of Queensland 1991. Thesis: Pathology and Significance of Slaughtered Stock encountered in Routine Meat Inspection.
In 1997 he published a booklet entitled "Halal Food according to the Islamic Laws", in which explained the lawful and the prohibited processes in the slaughter of the animals according to the Islamic Law (Shari'ah).
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