Federal prosecutors say the New York City headquarters of a kosher food manufacturer has a rodent problem.
The New York Times reports Friday that inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration seized about $1 million in inventory from Queens-based V.I.P. Foods last month after repeatedly finding rodent infestation.
Prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture and condemnation of the inventory.
V.I.P. Foods is the manufacturer of popular KoJel kosher food products, such as instant puddings and soups.
Prosecutors say they found widespread rodent infestation at the warehouse in October, including rodent droppings, live and dead mice and gnawed food containers.
The newspaper says the company told the FDA problems were fixed but inspectors found the same issues in February.
A phone call to V.I.P. Foods was not immediately returned Friday.
(AP)
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This scenario has been seen again and again. Kosher doesn’t mean “clean”.
Disgusting
And people say they are revolted by non kosher food
Yuk
Disgusting!
VIP = Very Infested Place
I see the m’kablay loshon hora are out in full force. You should be ashamed of yourselves!
When there is money involved only fools trust those who derive a financial benefit from the sale of the products. We have seen problems with those who claim to be observant owners before. The tzibur’s protection is the mashgiach.
I heard R’Wolfson Shlita say that “the masgichim are the same as the Cherubim at Gan Eden…protecting Klal Yisrael’s neshamas”
The question that should be asked is who is the Kashrus agency?
“Inventory” implies finished product in storage. Why should that be the responsibility of the kashrus agency?
ThenAgain,
Your comment is logical. Probably that is why it had not occured to many of the above commenters.
monseeyid,
Why do you jump to the mashgichim? That’s NOT fair! The mashgichim have NO control of anything non kashrus related. If hashgocha was removed for non kashrus related reasons, YOU would be the first to get up and shraiy chai v’kayum about how “its political” and nothing else! I guarantee you, if there really were problems, they were brought to the attention of the powers that be. These agencies don’t just swoop in like that.
Been in the business for more than 25 years. Have first hand knowledge and you? But I must say even though I have been an invited speaker on these subjects, few agree with me at first. However over time a major majority have come to the same understandings, so I am use to people disagreeing with my positions.
You are right “these agencies” just don’t suddenly swoop in…
The problem I have is that we allow issues to become problems which is like sending a smoke signal directly to B’nei Esav.
“Prosecutors say they found widespread rodent infestation at the warehouse in October, including rodent droppings, live and dead mice and gnawed food containers.”
Are you suggesting that someone working for the company at the Kashrus level didn’t know? And if they didn’t why not? And if they did why wasn’t something done to protect our food source? Why did we have to wait for “these agencies to swoop in”?
How many examples do we need before we become proactive?