Kashrus Terminology and Jargon at the Chicago Rabbinical Council

TERMS YOU’VE PROBABLY CIP SEEN OR HEARD “Clean In Place”, a company’s standard way of cleaning machines, which, if properly implemented, can also serve as AKO self-kashering. Association of Kashrus Organizations, a coalition of over 100 kashrus agencies worldwide, which share information with DTL one other and standardize industry policies. The cRc is one of Detail, a rating given to a kashrus agency whose products are AKO’s leading agencies. only recommended by the cRc on a case-by-case basis.

ASKcRc Group 1 www.ASKcRc.org, the cRc search website, where consumers A category designation for an ingredient that is inherently can search our database for product information from food kosher, e.g., water, salt, etc. to berachos and more! Hobart Bless the Food or Equipment Brand name of the machine at Starbucks which hot-washes A common phrase used by companies who are still learning kosher and non-kosher items together. what it really takes to make something kosher. HT BRK Hashgacha Ticket; this is completed by a Mashgiach and Blue Ribbon Kosher, is a kashrus agency in Minneapolis signed by the plant manager during a company inspection recently acquired by the cRc. before it is submitted to the company’s RC.

PY HTST , items baked by a Jew High Temperature, Short Time, is a common method of flash pasteurization used in manufacturing plants. Scales There is a category of bugs which shed their scales; these KDM scales may be found in orange juice or on blueberries. Kosher Database Management system of all cRc companies, and the formulas, ingredients, and raw materials that they Thrip Cloth use. An industrial-grade filtration silk material used to check for insect infestation. LOC Letter of Certification, which lists, on kosher agency letterhead, products certified as kosher; used by the company KASHRUS INDUSTRY TERMS to sell their products as kosher.

1T Period on Dollar Bill Designation for commodities that are not considered kosher The period found on the right-hand corner of the American for consumption, which, when hauled in a trailer or tanker dollar bill in the words Washington D.C. (the periods of D.C.), truck, do not compromise its kosher integrity. which is approximately ¼ of a millimeter, the same size as a newborn thrip larvae. Many posit this as “nirah l’enayim”, the Bitrex smallest size an insect can be to be considered non-kosher. The bitterest substance known to mankind, which is used daily in cRc plants as a “dover hapogem”, literally, a bittering PL agent. It is put into water which has indirect contact with Private Label agreement, which allows one company to use non-kosher items, to prevent their taste from spreading to the cRc logo when producing a product for another company. the kosher food being produced.

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RC TERMS UNIQUE TO cRc Rabbinic Coordinator, a who oversees all companies and Mashgichim in a specific area of kashrus. 5 Day Rule A catering Mashgiach must submit his paperwork, including Remote Log Tag the plate count at the event, within five days of the event. An electronic gadget that a Mashgiach attaches to a boiler to constantly record the temperature and help monitor a EZcRc company’s bishul Yisroel backup system. “Easy cRc”, a website designed specifically for cRc clients to allow them to easily manage all their kosher paperwork. Rework When a company incorporates old product that cannot be GMG sold into a new batch of product. This can be a real headache “Gornisht mit gornisht”, a term we use when a company for a Mashgiach. is making a product that doesn’t require a high level of hashgacha. RPL Reverse Private Label, which allows a cRc company to produce Green Room its product at another cRc company’s facility. The office space where our Kashrus Support staff updates and maintains our vast database of companies and products. Schedule A A list that a Mashgiach uses, which consists of all ingredients KC in a production plant, rated by complexity and certifying Kashrus Commission of the cRc, the group of cRc member agency. who set all policies for the Kashrus Department.

Schedule B Reverse Hashgacha A list that a Mashgiach uses, which consists of all products This allows a specially designated Mashgiach to be present the cRc certifies for a particular company, sorted by category during production of a non-kosher item at an all kosher cRc (e.g., , dairy, etc.). company, to ensure that none of the processing lines become non-kosher. SPR Special Run, when a non-kosher company manufactures Routing Meeting specific kosher-certified products under the supervision of a The annual meeting of the cRc’s RCs to determine who will Mashgiach temidi. visit each cRc company for that year.

SSHE The Rabbi Eisenbach Method Scraped Surface Heat Exchanger, machinery that cooks sticky The last-ditch effort the cRc IT Department uses to fix a and viscous products, by using paddles to scrape the product computer (i.e., give it a soft kick and reboot), as suggested by off the hot tubular metal. RC Rabbi Yaakov M. Eisenbach.

UKD The Rebba Universal Kosher Database, a database of ingredients Rabbi Chaim Goldzweig zt”l, whose kosher advice and lessons used by many of the largest kashrus agencies in the world, are so impactful to all of us, is referred to by this term of including the cRc. This allows all participating agencies to affection. share their information quickly and efficiently and to ensure that products meet kosher standards. Feb 2, 2021 The absolute last day we have to get the 5781 Pesach Guide to the printer!

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