Reply To: OU kashrus is not reliable?

I sent Dirty chips a facebook message. I wrote:

Hi, I am a kosher consumer and appreciate that your chips carry kosher certification. However, I have found something very troubling regarding your certification.

For kosher consumers, it is very important to distinguish Dairy foods from non-dairy foods. This is because we are forbidden to eat dairy food within 6 hours after eating meat. The kosher symbol therefore has a special designation for dairy–the addition of a “D”; and if the D is not present, it is implied that it is non-dairy.

Today, I noticed that some of your sour cream and onion flavored chips are carrying the regular kosher designation without the D–implying that they are non-dairy. However, the ingredients show that they are in fact dairy.

Even though the chips say they are sour cream flavor, it is not obvious that they are indeed dairy, and the fact that the kosher symbol designates them as non-dairy could easily lead someone to not read the ingredients and rely on that.

I would hope that you would be willing to recall those bags, as a measure of goodwill towards your kosher customers. I also recommend switching to a different kosher certification, as it is extremely disturbing that the kosher certifier would allow this to happen, and not immediately correct it.

Thank you.

Wolf: Get a grip; being oiver on basar b’chalav d’rabbanan is not a little deal. And it is very likely that someone would.