Dictionary meaning of Kosher means “right or correct” w.r.t Jewish dietary law prescribed in bible. Similarly Halal means which is “lawful” or “permitted as per Islamic practices. Commercial speaking from India export market segment Halal is preferred certification for Islamic countries like Middle east otherwise  in  other develop countries Like USA, UK, Canada, Australia or European Region  Kosher Certified food is more preferred . In absence of availability of Halal food instead of taking unbranded Muslim people shift to Kosher Certified food.

The list of animals forbidden by kashrut is more restrictive, as kashrut requires that, to be kosher, mammals must chew cud and must have cloven hooves. Thus some animals such as the camel are halal, but not kosher. There are no restrictions on what organs or parts of the carcass may be eaten from a halal-slaughtered and -dressed animal; as long as it was slaughtered and prepared according to the rules of halal, the entire animal, with the exception of blood, is fit for consumption by Muslims. However, kashrut prohibits eating the chelev (certain types of fat) and gid hanosheh (the sciatic nerve).

Kashrut requires strict separation of dairy and meat products, even when they are kosher separately.

Almost all insects are prohibited by both sets of law,

In Kosher, Gelatin is only permissible if it comes from a permissible animal (usually kosher gelatin comes from the bones of kosher fish, or is a vegan substitute, such as agar). Most commonly, the gelatin made from animal products is not manufactured from kosher or kosher-slaughtered animals

For an item to be halal, it must not contain alcohol of any kind. However, there is a difference drawn between the addition of alcohol to foods, which is absolutely forbidden, and the small quantities that naturally become present – such as orange juice. Except for grape wine and grape juice (which must be manufactured under Jewish supervision), kashrut allows the consumption of any sort of alcohol, as long as it has kosher ingredients (excluding any unsupervised grape extracts).

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Kosher Certifications Services India is India’s premier Kosher Certification Agency having office in Delhi. We have affiliations with different Kosher Certification Agencies in India and abroad to provide services of Kosher certification and Kosher Supervision in India in best possible manner at affordable rates. We have put together our resources and knowledge to help manufacturers get the benefit of global kosher certification and thereby take benefit a huge market. We are outcome from wishes of starts ups in India who are looking for export from India and want to obtain kosher certification at lowest cost. We intend to make Kosher certification affordable to Small and Medium Enterprise(SME) to boost their business and in turn export from India. We not only just provide Affordable Jewish Certificate or Affordable kosher certificate at competitive rates but also lowest price kosher certificate. Many time an organization thinks that our product is Kosher why we need to take kosher certificate.

Kosher Certification in India

Although Kosher Certification is now century old concept but in India, organizations taking Kosher Certificate are very few. Kosher certified food is not consumed in India but exported outside India in developed countries like USA, Canada, U.K. Israel ect.  Now focus has been enhanced not just religion but also health consciousness.  As Kosher Certified food  is termed to be good for health.

Main hurdle in taking kosher certificate, organizations feels that their order book is small and their initial margin is wiped off by cost of kosher certificate. Here we can say that such cost should be viewed in long run instead of considering it with first or few order. It ultimately enhance the someone brand value and fetch better price compared to non-kosher product. Its create goodwill for the organization and help to increase the sale.

Around the world there are more than 1400 Kosher certifying agencies varying form age out of them around 30 are active in India. There is no accreditation system  for Kosher Certification agencies working in India. As far as big old agencies are concern they command good reputation but it does not mean that there is no value of other’s someone should see how ethical standard they are following. To save cost some organization demand that as their form is approved that’s why they don’t want visit. This is really funny thing and against Kashrut practice and should not be allowed to followed as Kosher certification is not talks about ingredients but also equipment’s, their handling for non-kosher product and complete  process also.

In India Rabbi generally visit out of India as low base of business in India. Some agencies rely on the representative’s visit which makes cost of certification viable for small and medium enterprises (SME).

Period of certification vary from firm to firm, which may varies 10 days to 30 days from initial  advance payment if no rectification is required after final inspection. If some correction at production facility is required time required will depend on the time taken on such corrections.

In India Kosher milk is not available as to milk to be Kosher it just not need to be from kosher animal but also supervision factors comes which is makes it costly and nobody is taking challenge to observe this cost yet. This takes difficult to make milk derivative/by product to be kosher certified. Similar position is coming substantially coming for meat as Michigan appearance is require as butcher and supervision.