Thanks for the info, Mark. I will take note and inform the family that we can't
really trust these labels yet. Too bad! But I think I will write a note of
appreciation to the companies that are doing it. Perhaps it will encourage them
to keep doing it and even to expand what they label?

About kosher foods - I'm not Jewish, and don't know anyone Jewish here locally
to ask. But I was trying to find a place to buy kosher deli meats and such here
in Portland, Oregon - but I was unable to find them! I know there has to be a
way. Any suggestions, anyone, on how to look?

I get so frustrated with meats listing "lactose" so often - my local store
sometimes carries hotdogs that are labelled as kosher (Hebrew National), but I
just can't find deli meats for sandwiches (can't remember the last time I had
one, in fact). ugh!

Gertie

--- Mark Feblowitz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> No - not (yet) a federal requirement. More a courtesy to their
> customers. There are also no federal standards as to what these
> labels mean, and whether they are "true" or just covering some
> liability. (If a company says it has dairy, can someone with a dairy



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