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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
Pas Yisroel, 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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