Last year, the emporium launched a range of halal Belgian chocolates for Ramadan.
Upmarket restaurants have begun offering banquets complete with non-alcoholic cocktails to celebrate the end of abstinence and Harrods has introduced a range of halal gift confectionery to coincide with Eid.
Estimates of the number of halal accreditation bodies worldwide range from 300 to 3000, including mosques, governments, Islamic organisations and individuals.
KFC, an American fast-food chain, is conducting a trial of halal food in eight of its British restaurants.
Haloodies (a portmanteau of "halal" and "foodies") is a brand of neatly packaged halal meats.
One supermarket chain, Auchan, carries a total of 80 certified-halal cured meat products, along with 40 kinds of halal frozen goods and about 30 precooked halal meals.
But there are different definitions of halal, he says.
Now there is an almost endless list of halal products.
Now we are in the spring of halal slaughter.
Perhaps without realising it, by questioning halal certification in this way critics of halal replicate a traditional antisemitic preoccupation.
