Ajinomoto, a supposedly savory taste enhancer, has triggered an unsavory controversy over its use of an ingredient Muslims are forbidden to consume. In a fatwa issued earlier this month, the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI) declared the Japanese food seasoning haram. The fatwa followed findings by the council's food and drug agency that bactosoytone—an enzyme extracted from the pancreas of pigs—was being used in the production of t