Reply To: Kashrus

Trying my best:

“If the organization has a gazillion (or whatever number is enough) kashrus inspectors, why not? “

I don’t believe any kashrus organization that gives hechsheirim on FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ITEMS has a sufficient amount of mashgichim. Do they have 200,000 mashgichim? No. Even a 100,000 food items is impossible to have a complete chesbon throughout production, packaging and labeling.

The FACT is foodstuff is constantly being updated regarding kashrus and people may not be aware that what they are eating is mislabeled and TREIF, or they may not become aware of that at all.

The fact that such such lists of mislabeled products is an accepted as normal is ridiculous.

Kashrus should not be a massive business with the goal to certify more and more products as “kosher” (I specificly placed the quotation mark by the word “kosher” because the FACT is that some items labeled kosher, are not). Kashrus organizations need to take their kashrus more seriously.

Food establishments, resturaunts and the like, is in a different category than factory produced items and they are ussually more stringently observed than factories by the mashgichim working under these very same huge kashrus companies. There were of course stories of treif sold in food establishments as well, however, in general there is no hefkeres as there is in the mass labeling of “kosher” food items.