<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">R"n Toby Katz wrote:<br>
> The article you quoted gives one very strong argument in<br>
> favor of hechsherim as opposed to lists: if a company is<br>
> under contract with a kashrus agency, it can't change the<br>
> ingredients in its supervised products without informing<br>
> the kashrus agency.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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