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China’s response to tainted food: bring in the rabbis!

by Alix Wall · January 22nd, 2008

Food Safety, News, On The Web

Apparently China is now trying to tap the lucrative kosher market. A story on Bloomberg.com (thanks, Dad, for the tip) leads off like this:

Chinese exporters, facing a U.S. backlash over tainted food products, are turning to an unlikely group of inspectors to help clean up their act: Jewish rabbis.

While the whole story is rather humorous, I can only ask this question after reading the lead: What other kind of rabbis are there?

Find the full story here.

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One Response to “China’s response to tainted food: bring in the rabbis!”

Leah Koenig Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Crazy@ I thought this line was particularly interesting:

“Since 2001, the Orthodox Union has required makers of products it certifies as kosher to place a code on their packages identifying the plant where it was made so the product can be traced in a recall.”

How sad that the recalls are so assumed that a measure like this is necessary….