Today is April 26, 2024 / /
Today is April 26, 2024 / /
Campbell’s Vegetarian Vegetable Soup will no longer be certified by the O/U. Cans still bearing the O/U are certified.
We are thankful to Rabbi Eidlitz of the Kosher Information Bureau for this information. Tic Tac products manufactured in Europe with Hebrew writing and distributed in Israel over the last several years, have generally been accepted as kosher. However, it has now been discovered that there may have been falsifying of documents regarding that product, Continue Reading »
As we were reading the NY Times, a pamphlet fell out. Turning it over, we read:OUR PASSOVER MENU 2006. Inside, it had the most incredible items: Cauliflower Leek Kugel and Braised baby artichokes just to name two. Then we noticed the price on the brisket: $12.99 per pound. Bells and sirens went off in our Continue Reading »
This is breaking news from KOSHER TODAY: Duncan Hines Set to Make Cake Mix Products Dairy (Cherry Hill, NJ) A line of popular Orthodox Union (OU) certified cake mixes by Duncan Hines will soon switch to dairy ingredients, Kosher Today has learned. The decision will affect the large number of kosher consumers that have been Continue Reading »
Beware of a new product appearing now, or soon to appear, on a grocer’s shelf near you! A new apple has hit the market. Called a GRAPPLE, the new apple is actually grape flavored! To create the Grapple, the apple is marinated in grape juice. There is more to the process, but that pretty much Continue Reading »
New York State introduced a new kosher law this January. The new law is designed to help the consumer decide if a store’s kosher status is up to the customer’s personal standards or not. In New York State, an educated consumer is a kosher store’s best customer. The new law creates a registry, accesible on Continue Reading »
TRADER JOE’S FUDGE BROWNIES bears a mislabeled Star-K. The product is Star-D certified, a non-cholov Yisroel certification of the National Council of Young Israel administered by the Star-K. Future packaging will be corrected.
A New York firm is recalling about 5,760 pounds of chicken products because of possible listeria contamination, the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Monday. Schreiber Processing Corp. of Maspeth has received no reports of illness, the recall said, but to be safe, the product is on recall. The products were produced on Continue Reading »
The Star K today sent the following kosher alert: December 23, 2004 Effective immediately, YOGI’S KOSHER INDIAN VEGETARIAN CUISINE, located at 2450 Route 9 South, Howell, NJ, is no longer under Star-K certification and is not kosher certified. There must be a punch in there somewhere, but we are too bummed to think of one! Continue Reading »
It looks like another scandal is going to hit the OU. One has to wonder- at what point does the so called “teflon” hashgacha (no scandal ever seems to stick to them) begin to stagger against the ropes? Mrs. Smith’s pies sure were good. So good, in fact, that people used to say, “Wow, this Continue Reading »
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