{"id":6572,"date":"2020-09-23T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-k.org\/articles\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2020-09-23T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:55:15","slug":"star-ks-virtual-kosher-inspections-highlighted-in-bloomberg-businessweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-k.org\/articles\/news\/6572\/star-ks-virtual-kosher-inspections-highlighted-in-bloomberg-businessweek\/","title":{"rendered":"STAR-K\u2019S COVID-19 RESPONSE HIGHLIGHTED IN BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the kosher food industry especially when it comes to making inspections in China and in some other countries that are limiting access to foreigners. Star-K\u2019s approach to this issue making every effort to make in-person inspections of facilities has been highlighted in an article by Bloomberg Businessweek.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cIn July STAR-K sent four rabbis via private jet to a fish gelatin facility in Uganda where they quarantined for 14 days to supervise production.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot more to the kosher food industry than Hebrew National hot dogs and Manischewitz wine. Kosher food was a $19.1 billion industry in 2018, according to Allied Market Research, which projects it will grow to $25.6 billion by 2026. Many ordinary products in U.S. supermarkets are certified kosher, with everything from Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream to McCormick spices having kashrut symbols, and those labels can provide assurance not just for observant Jews but also for gentiles who are vegan or have other dietary restrictions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-09-16\/kosher-during-coronavirus-rabbis-inspect-chinese-food-plants-virtually\">Click here to read the full article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the kosher food industry especially when it comes to making inspections in China and in some other countries that are limiting access to foreigners. Star-K\u2019s approach to this issue making every effort to make in-person inspections of facilities has been highlighted in an article by Bloomberg Businessweek.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIn July STAR-K sent four rabbis via private jet to a fish gelatin facility in Uganda where they quarantined for 14 days to supervise production.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot more to the kosher food industry than Hebrew National hot dogs and Manischewitz wine. Kosher food was a $19.1 billion industry in 2018, according to Allied Market Research, which projects it will grow to $25.6 billion by 2026. Many ordinary products in U.S. supermarkets are certified kosher, with everything from Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream to McCormick spices having kashrut symbols, and those labels can provide assurance not just for observant Jews [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[184,183],"class_list":["post-6572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-certified-kosher","tag-kosher-certification"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Star-K Kosher Certification | Certified Kosher | Star-K<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the kosher food industry especially when it comes to making inspections in China and in some other countries.\" 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