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April 28, 2016

How the Heinz Company Pioneered America’s Best-Known Kosher Symbol

And told customers not to buy its products on Passover.

In 1924, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations (OU) began sending rabbis to inspect food-production factories so that it could vouch for the kashrut of their products. One of the OU’s first successful ventures was with H.J. Heinz, the Pittsburgh-based producers of ketchup and canned goods. David Schlitt writes:

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