Reply To: Labeled OU-D but no dairy ingredients. Why then is it OU-D?

akuperma:

If there is a reliable hechsher then obviously there will not be any pig derivative in there, or what have you. Obviously you can not eat something without a hechsher – in this case OU. I am talking about the D part.

I am referring specifically to dairy. I heard that there are government regulations requiring the labeling of dairy even if there is only a trace of it since there are people that can not have any of it for health reasons. If this is true, then if you read a products ingredients and there is no mention of dairy, then there will be no dairy in the product whatsoever.

If so why would it say OUD? Either because I am wrong and despite the fact that there is no mention of dairy – there is dairy in there and there is no such government regulation or I am right and its truly only “dairy equipment” which in fact is NOT chalav akum.