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Importance of checking hechshers on everything



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amother


 

Post Thu, Mar 30 2006, 5:00 pm
a friend of ours was cooping at the hershey factory where they make the chocolate and the twizzlers and other candy. apparantly not all of their products are kosher. he told us that he very often saw religious jews there (he himself is not religious).

anyhow, once our friend was working on the twizzler machine and he pressed a wrong button by mistake and the entire batch from that day became treif and they had to remove the OU from those packages. I eat twizzlers all the time and I've never really bothered to check every package, it's kosher! but now I realize that while it's usually kosher, if a mistake happened, it's possible it won't be kosher, so I check everything now, even something that always has had a hechsher.
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TzenaRena




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 03 2006, 3:58 am
Yes, and also products of a particular brand that you are familiar with often come with identical labels, but assorted hechsherim.

for example, most Israeli products come with a Rabbanut hechsher, and also special runs that are produced with mehadrin hechsherim.

You can buy Osem in the identical packaging, but one has a rabbanut hechsher and one has a BaDatZ yerushalyim one.

You must check the package each time.

Once the grocery had a chocolate spread with a different color lid than I was used to. as I looked closer I realized that this spread was not parve, and not only that didn't have the usual BaDaTZ hechsher, but a rabbanut one, and on checking the ingredients saw that it was dairy and specified that it was NOT Cholov Yisrael!

I brought this to the attention of the manager, because I figured it was a mistake, they'd never sell this in our neighborhood. Whoever was used to this product wouldn't even look twice, and would use it in their parve baking, so it was deceptive!

The manager told me that there was a demand for this product. Surprised Crying
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chen




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 03 2006, 8:10 am
all the reputable hechsher orgs say that the symbol must appear on the package for the item to be kosher, and you must check every package. (Exception: certain items kosher lepesach all year round do not require a special hechsher for pesach but still require a hechsher to show they're kosher.) Kind of a pain when you are buying a dozen of something, but better to do it in the store than after you get home.
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