date:Mar 20, 2013
0 percent of the meat sold as kosher in the city was, in fact, not kosher. Consumer groups and industry associations estimated that that figure was somewhere between 50 to 65 percent. Kosher certification suffered from the same financial incentives to cut corners that characterize private food safety auditing.
Today, kosher fraud is extremely rare. While mistakes do occasionally happen, by and large, food certified as kosher is kosher. Beginning in the 1950s, a new breed of independent kosher