Abstract
The growth of halal pharmaceutical industry is resulting from the increase of awareness among Muslim patients to search for halal medication. In line with this awareness, the Muslim patients requested for information regarding the pharmaceutical product prescribed to them and the medicine that is used throughout their treatment. This behaviour have contributed to the question of who holds the liability to supply the information and assured the halal status of the pharmaceutical product and how much information need to be supply to the patients. This study research on the liability of the physician and pharmacist to inform the patients who requested for halal information the halal status of the pharmaceutical product. The study looks into the existing guideline (if there is any) and practice among the physician and pharmacist in dispensing halal information of a pharmaceutical product. The study aims at recommending an appropriate guidelines or improvement of the existing laws and regulations in this area of study. Data of the study are gathered using the qualitative method involving library research which involves the analysis of the law of tort and the existing guideline together with semi-structured interviews.
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The authors hereby wish to thank Ministry of Education for the award of scholarship for Ph.D. studies of Norazlina Abdul Aziz. We would also like to extend our gratitude to Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Faculty of Law, UiTM and the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, IIUM for their assistance and financial support of the research. Our thanks are also extended to the direct and implied related authors whose writings have contributed to the data gathered in this research.
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Aziz, N.A., Ramli, N., Amin, N. (2018). Request for Halal Pharmaceutical Information: Duty of Physician and Pharmacist. In: Muhammad Hashim, N., Md Shariff, N., Mahamood, S., Fathullah Harun, H., Shahruddin, M., Bhari, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd International Halal Conference (INHAC 2016) . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7257-4_19
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