• _ Consumer products with added ingredients that contain alcohol must have less than 0.1% alcohol, including both added and any natural alcohol, to qualify as halal. At this level, one cannot taste the alcohol, smell the alcohol, or see the alcohol, a criterion generally applied for the impurities. This reasoning has been established by the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America. Other groups may accept more lenient or stricter guidelines than these. The food industry should consult its customer companies or halal-approval agencies for their exact standard