The following symbols can be found on food products and certain non-food items like soaps, etc. Each certifying organization carefully inspects the ingredients, machinery and processing methods to make sure no unclean animals, as stated in Lev 11 & Deut 14, are used. It is not possible to simply read the ingredients to determine if a product is Scripturally clean. While the ingredient label may not list an unclean ingredient, that does not mean an unclean animal by-product was not used in the processing. For example, if a product lists "natural flavour" as an ingredient, the flavour could be derived from cats, whales, beavers, etc. Those animals are indeed "natural," but they are not kosher (Scripturally clean). If, however, "natural flavours" is listed, but there is a kosher symbol on the item, it would mean the natural flavour was not from an unclean source.
The Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations
The Organized Kashrus Laboratories
Star-K Kosher Certification
Star-D
KOF-K Kosher Supervision
The Heart "K" Kehila Kosher
The "RCC" Community Kashrus
Division of the Rabbinical Council of California
Vaad Harabanim of Greater
Seattle
Kosher Supervision of
America
Vaad Hoeir of Saint Louis
The Vaad Hakashrus of Denver
The Texas K
& International Kosher Supervision & the Chicago Rabbinical
Council have merged into one company.
Vaad Hakashrus
of Dallas - The "DK"
K'hal adath Jeshurun
(Breuer's)
Atlanta Kashruth Commission
National Kashrut
The "MK"
Manchester Beth Din
Montreal Vaad Hair
Vaad Hakashrus of
Massachusetts
Kashruth Council of Toronto
Tri-State Kashruth, Vaad Hoer of
Cincinnati
The "CHOF
KOSHER"
Vaad HaRaBONIM of Florida
Orthodox Vaad
of Philadelphia
The California
"K" Kehilla Kosher (Igud Hakashrus of Los Angeles)
Rabbinical Council of Orange County
& Long Beach
Vaad HaKashrus
of the Five Towns
Rabbinic
Administrator of Upper Midwest Kashrut
The
"K-COR" Vaad Harabonim of Greater Detroit & Merkaz
The "Sefer
Torah-Kasher" The Vaad Harabbonim of Flatbush
Bais Din of
Crown Heights
Kashruth of The
Central Rabbinical Congress
Orthodox Rabbinical Council of
British Columbia
aGUDaH The Beth Din Zedek of
agudath Israel
The London Beth
Din Court of the Chief Rabbi
KEDaSSIa
Kedassia, The Joint Kashrus Committee of England
Glatt Kosher &endash; Nevei
Achiezer
Bais Din Tzedek of the Eida
Hachareidis of Jerusalem
BELZ The Bais Din Tzdek of K'hal
Machzikei Hadas
Rabbi Moshe
Y.L.Landa(Ravof Bnei-Brak)
Rabbi Nuchem Efraim (Noam) & Teitelbaum (Volver
Rav)
Rabbi Shlomo Stern (Debraciner
Rav)
Rabbi M.
Weissmandl (Rav of Nitra-Monsey)
H.K.K. Kosher Certification Service
of Hong Kong>