Purpose: Researchers have been actively investigating various issues concerning food and halal compliance framework. The analysis is focused on descriptions of the characteristics and trends of keywords, authors, journals and citations. This study reviews articles in order to map the problems, models, solution approaches and more importantly, the future directions of this field. Design/methodology/approach: Our method employs 204 articles on food and halal compliance research indexed by Scopus. Various techniques from statistics, bibliometric, and analytics are systematically deployed to gain insights on how the literature address these topics. The data was then processed and analyzed using the VOSviewer application program to select the bibliometric mapping of research developments on food and halal compliance Findings: The results showed that the visualization of the mapping of research developments in this theme was divided into three clusters. Cluster one consists of 53 topics, cluster two consists of 42 topics, cluster 3 consists of 32 topics. Research limitations/implications: This study focuses on articles that discuss food and halal compliance framework.