Friday, May 07, 2010
Now You Can Get Fresh Kosher Milk in China
If you are an Ashkenazi Jew with lactose intolerance, this news might not seem important to you, but a Beijing dairy is now distributing fresh kosher milk throughout China.
The organic milk – which is cholov yisroel, a stricter kosher standard acceptable to ultra - Orthodox Jews – is being produced under the supervision of Chabad-Lubavitch of Beijing. According to Chabad.org, the milk “meets European and American health standards.”
That assurance might alleviate concerns about tainted milk that have been at the center of several recent food scandals in the People’s Republic.
In the fall of 2008, according to the Jewish Telegrahic Agency (JTA), more than 300,000 Chinese babies were sickened and six died after drinking tainted infant formula. A Chinese middleman company was discovered buying milk from farmers watering it down to save money, spiking it with melamine to fool quality control agents and selling it to manufacturers of infant formula.
Top company officials were sentenced to death, but public distrust of the dairy industry remains strong. Reporters investigating the incident discovered that such dangerous adulteration of milk products had been going on for years.
The new kosher milk, which is also supervised by Rabbi Padwa of the London rabbinical court, JTA reported, will be produced monthly. It will be available in eight areas where most of China’s 10,000 Jews are found, including the city of Shanghai and Hong Kong.
http://www.jewishtimes-sj.com/news/2010-05-07/Front_Page/Now_You_Can_Get_Fresh_Kosher_Milk_in_China.html
The organic milk – which is cholov yisroel, a stricter kosher standard acceptable to ultra - Orthodox Jews – is being produced under the supervision of Chabad-Lubavitch of Beijing. According to Chabad.org, the milk “meets European and American health standards.”
That assurance might alleviate concerns about tainted milk that have been at the center of several recent food scandals in the People’s Republic.
In the fall of 2008, according to the Jewish Telegrahic Agency (JTA), more than 300,000 Chinese babies were sickened and six died after drinking tainted infant formula. A Chinese middleman company was discovered buying milk from farmers watering it down to save money, spiking it with melamine to fool quality control agents and selling it to manufacturers of infant formula.
Top company officials were sentenced to death, but public distrust of the dairy industry remains strong. Reporters investigating the incident discovered that such dangerous adulteration of milk products had been going on for years.
The new kosher milk, which is also supervised by Rabbi Padwa of the London rabbinical court, JTA reported, will be produced monthly. It will be available in eight areas where most of China’s 10,000 Jews are found, including the city of Shanghai and Hong Kong.
http://www.jewishtimes-sj.com/news/2010-05-07/Front_Page/Now_You_Can_Get_Fresh_Kosher_Milk_in_China.html
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