OU Kosher Staff

Impulse First Kosher Energy Drink

Impulse Energy Drinks are the first in its category to have OU Certification.

OU Conference Explores The Traditions Of Rare Kosher Animals & Birds

What do American buffalo, giraffes, sparrows and grasshoppers have in common? They were all featured at an Orthodox Union conference in May on the traditions of kosher meat. An attendance numbering in the hundreds filled the auditorium of Lander College for Men in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, NY to learn about the traditions (mesorah) of […]

Kosherfest 2004 Brings Many Visitors To OU Booth

Kosherfest 2004, the sixteenth annual kosher food and foodservice trade show, took place at New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on October 26 and 27.

High Fructose Corn Syrup

Most of us (with the possible exception of some of our more junior associates) did not, as children, have high fructose corn syrup in our foods. But as frequent visitors to food production plants around the country it has been hard not to notice that high fructose corn syrup has quickly become the primary sweetener […]

Peanut Butter I

A exploration of peanut butter and its (sticky) Kosher concerns

Peanut Butter II: Standard Of Identity

For Part 1 click here In the early 1920’s a young American entrepreneur named James Rosefield, seeking to overcome the troubling problem of oil separation in peanut butter, took advantage of a new development in oil chemistry, called hydrogenation, in which he squeezed a fraction of peanut oil out of peanuts, hydrogenated the oil, and […]

New York City Tap Water Statement

Official statement about OU policy with regard to NYC tapwater

An OU Rabbi Presents Seminars To Supervised Companies

Rabbi Stone’s Roadshow or, Why Your Kosher Product Is Kosher

Bagged Salad – And It’s Pre-Checked!

National Kosher Produce receives OU certification; insect-free products reflect rigorous standards of the company and OU

The Kosher Advantage

Background It’s one of those classic radio and television ads. A group of sheepish executives are huddled around a large corporate table. The CEO storms into the room and pounds on the table. “Sales are down, and we’re on the verge of bankruptcy. Can’t go on like this much longer. Jim, Nancy, Bill, Theresa…we need […]