[Avodah] Kashrus

[Samuel Svarc]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Allan Engel <allan.engel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> R"n Toby Katz wrote:
>> > The article you quoted gives one very strong argument in
>> > favor of hechsherim as opposed to lists:  if a company is
>> > under contract with a kashrus agency, it can't change the
>> > ingredients in its supervised products without informing
>> > the kashrus agency.
>>
>
> This can also be true where there is no direct supervision. AFAIK the LBD has commercial agreements in place with producers that appear on their list that >they will not change ingredients or production practices without informing the LBD.

And if the company runs out of a kosher ingredient and the only one
available is non-kosher they will shut down production because of this
agreement, or will they say that only permanent ingredient changes are
covered?

KT,
MSS