date:Mar 20, 2013
Finally, certification agency personnel are motivated by a shared sense of mission that counteracts conflicts of interest and promotes cooperation between competing certifiers, sometimes referred to as an industrial morality. There is no denying that kosher certification is a business. But it is not just a business. For the rabbis who staff certification agencies, it is also a sacred trust.
In the end, kosher certification is not so much the means to food safety reform as it is a model for it