[Avodah] [Areivim] Believing Companies - Kashrus

[harchinam]

> Does this mean that if vegetable glycerin was cheaper than non-veg that we
> would be able to rely on the non-Jew, assuming they would do whatever is
> cheapest?

No, we wouldn't. How can you be sure that the company didn't get a
great deal for who knows what reason on the more expensive product? Or
that there was some fashla in deliveries and the more expensive
ingredient had to be substituted so as not to keep production lines
idle?

The only way that we can hope to be sure that ingredient X is used
instead of Y is that we have mashgichim checking the delivery lists,
supplier lists, kitchen, etc. to verify that no changes were made in
the regular way of making the product for any reason. And even then,
mistakes can get by.

By the way, in response to other posts, the fact that corn is cheaper
in the States than in England is not impressive reasoning. Corn is
surely cheaper in the States than it is in Israel, yet corn syrup is
used in the Coca Cola here. It would seem to me to be logical that
Coca Cola, as a well-known brand with a well-known flavor, would want
its product to taste the same all over the world. Why shouldn't they
demand that "current coke" have the same flavor everywhere instead of
the flavor of "old coke"?

*** Rena