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A Canadian food distributor was busted sending cheese falsely labeled as ‘ Kosher’ to Jewish summer camps, and was ordered to pay a hefty fine. The Toronto Star reports, Creation Foods has been ordered to pay $25,000 for contravening the Food and Drugs Act and selling falsely labelled, non-kosher cheddar to two summer camps for observant Jewish children in 2015. The company’s forged kosher certificates were brought to the attention of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in June 2015, after an employee of The Kashruth Council of Canada (KCOC) noticed some inconsistently in the labeling on some of the boxes of cheese delivered to an overnight summer camp. After Creation Foods was asked to submit certificates verifying the Kashrus of the cheese, a KCOC employee noticed that a digit in the product code on the certificate had been photoshopped so it would match the one on the box to make it seem like a non-kosher box of cheese was in fact kosher. |
