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    <title>OUKosher.org News</title>
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    <dc:creator>cooperl@ou.org</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2009-11-16T15:40:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Glossary of Kosher Terms for Companies</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/glossary_of_kosher_terms_for_companies/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Industrial Kosher, The Kosher Certification Process</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Some non-English kosher terms that you may come across along with their explanations.
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      <dc:date>2006-12-25T19:40:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Pas Yisroel Products</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/ou_pas_yisroel_products/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Kosher, Practical Kashruth, Kosher in the Kitchen</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A list of products certified as Pas Yisroel by the OU.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2005-09-12T18:55:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Dairy Industry Training Webinar</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/dairy_industry_training_webinar/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[On Friday October 16th the OU presented the first of a two-part webinar (Internet seminar) on dairy hashgacha.  The second session took place one week later on Friday, October 23. Rabbi Yaakov Mendelson, Senior Dairy RC, moderated the sessions and presented e-mail questions sent in advance and on-the-spot by RFRs; Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer and Rabbi Avrohom Juravel responded verbally and live to the questions.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-11-16T15:40:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>What Beracha does one recite on a granola bar?</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/what_beracha_does_one_recite_on_a_granola_bar/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Kosher, Misc., Kosher Professionals, Articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[If one does not understand the process involved in creating a granola bar, one could study the ingredient panel a hundred times and still not be able to answer the above question. However, through our access to the companies that produce these bars we are privy to information that is important in resolving this issue. ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-11-16T15:17:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>ASK OU Outreach Program in Passaic&#45;Clifton Draws Rave Reviews</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/ask_ou_outreach_program_in_passaic_clifton_draws_rave_reviews/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Harry H. Beren ASKOU OUTREACH post-Shabbat visit to the Passaic-Clifton community on November 7 drew many participants to the first “Understand Kashrut as You’ve Never Understood it Before!” program. Rabbi Yosef Grossman, OU Director of Kosher Education, declared “Fantastic! Excellent! These were just some of the words of feedback we received from the participants in the first series of ASKOU OUTREACH Kashrut shiurim in the Passaic – Clifton community.” ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-11-10T21:20:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>OU Honors Schreiber Foods Inc. &amp;amp; It&#8217;s President &amp;amp; CEO Michael J. Haddad At Annual Dinner</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/ou_honors_schreiber_foods_inc_its_president_ceo_michael_j_haddad_at_annual_/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News, OU Kosher News, Programs/Events</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Schreiber Foods Inc. and its President and CEO Michael J. Haddad will be honored at the Orthodox Union’s 111th Annual Dinner & Awards Presentation, with the National Kashrut Leadership Award, Sunday evening, December 6 at the Hudson Theater and Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York. ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-11-10T18:01:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Lo basi Ella L&#8217;orer; Bishul Akum</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/lo_basi_ella_lorer4/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Questions of bishul akum surface all the time, and it is important when reviewing products and ingredients to be mindful of the issues of bishul akum. The following are some recent issues that have been discussed in the office relating to bishul akum.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-11-06T17:48:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>ASKOU Outreach Program to Visit Passaic&#45;Clifton Community for Series of Kosher Lectures</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/askou_outreach_program_to_visit_passaic_clifton_community_for_series_of_kas/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Given the enormous success of the Harry H. Beren ASKOU OUTREACH program and its visits to yeshivot, kollelim and semicha programs, ASKOU Outreachis now expanding to major Jewish communities with its first post-Shabbat visits to the Passaic-Clifton community.  According to Rabbi Yosef Grossman, OU Director of Kosher Education, the motto of the program is “Understand Kashrut as You’ve Never Understood it Before!”]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-10-26T19:52:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>“The Original” Wrapole’ Premium Quality Tortillas® Now Certified by the Orthodox Union</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/the_original_wrapole_premium_quality_tortillas_now_certified_by_the_orthodo/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News, OU Kosher News, Endorsements</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ellen Libfeld, Vice President of “The Original” WrapOle’ Premium Quality Tortillas®, announced the Orthodox Union will be the certification agency for product made in Florida.  All products will continue to be Pas Yisroel and made with the same ingredients customers have enjoyed since 1996.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-10-22T14:48:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>OU Kosher to present ‘Cooking on Shabbat’ webcast, November 17</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/ou_kosher_to_present_cooking_on_shabbat_webcast_november_17/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[On the heels of the success of and feedback from previous OU Kosher webcasts to which thousands of listeners have tuned in, OU Kosher will present "Cooking on Shabbat -- A Hot Topic -- News & Views about Stews & Brews" featuring OU Kosher authorities and senior halachic consultants Rabbi Yisroel Belsky and Rabbi Hershel Schachter. The webcast will take place Tuesday, November 17, 3:30 PM EST. To watch the webcast live, visit <a href="http://www.ou.org/ouradio/kosher_webcast/">http://www.ou.org/ouradio/kosher_webcast/</a>. ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-10-22T14:10:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Bitul</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/bitul/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A summary of the OU's position about using bitul in Kosher food productions.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-10-22T14:08:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Sake and Miso</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/sake_and_miso/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Articles</dc:subject>
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      <dc:date>2009-09-15T19:01:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Constant Review is Required: An Inspection Report</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/constant_review_is_required_an_inspection_report/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[When this plant was first set up as a kosher facility, it was known that they had a non-kosher plant that produces assorted products on the same campus.  Of course, the issue of steam return condensate was brought up.  It turned out that condensation from the non-kosher factory was not being returned to the boiler so there was no problem to certify the kosher division.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-09-15T19:00:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Recycled Ingredients</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/recycled_ingredients/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A basic phenomenon in chemistry plays a crucial role in industrial kashrus. When two chemicals react with one another, one will be used up before the other. The chemical used up first is called a “limiting reactant” and the chemical which is not used up is an “excess reactant”. Often the excess reactant is recovered, purified, and used again in another production. ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-09-15T18:57:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Heering® Coffee OU Certification Announced</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/heering_coffee_ou_certification_announced/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Alcoholic Beverages, OU Kosher: Consumer News, OU Kosher News, Newly Certified</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Heering Coffee Liqueur Joins Cherry Heering Liqueur certified by the Orthodox Union 
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      <dc:date>2009-09-11T18:19:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Fish and Meat</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/fish_and_meat/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Fish Products, Meat Products, Consumer Kosher, Practical Kashruth, Kosher Professionals, Articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Gemara Pesachim (76b) teaches that one may not cook fish and meat together since this combination is considered a sakana. Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 116:2-3) adds that one may not even eat meat after fish or fish after meat unless one eats and drinks in between1. Rama adds that one should not cook open meat and fish in the same oven because of raicha (aroma), though bidieved we say that raicha lav milsa. Magen Avrohom (O.C. 173:1) questions whether this sakana still exists today, however the minhag is still to be machmir.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-09-11T14:51:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>OU’s First Advanced Kashrut Seminar for Women:&amp;nbsp; Food for Thought on the Intricacies of Kosher</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/ous_first_advanced_kashrut_seminar_for_women_food_for_thought_on_the_intric/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As millions of students of all ages were enjoying their last days of summer freedom before heading back to school, the Orthodox Union got a jump on the academic year by kicking off its weeklong Advanced Kashrut  Seminar for Women, the OU’s  first-ever course for women. Twenty-five women participated in the program.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-09-03T19:35:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Statement from OU Kashruth Department</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/statement_from_ou_kashruth_department/</link>
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      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A recent article raised questions about the standards of Israeli food establishments under OU supervision.  The article did not claim that kashrus was compromised.  Rabbi Yosef Minsky, the OU representative in Israel, has informed us, and our initial review and  consultation with other agencies in Israel indicate, that the standards in place are essentially comparable with other reliable mehadrin agencies and Badatzim in Israel.

Rabbi Yaakov Luban, Senior OU Rabbinic Coordinator, who has extensive knowledge of food service establishments, is being dispatched to Israel this week, and will perform a thorough review of the OU operation.  For the past 25 years, Rabbi Luban has been involved with food service establishments in various capacities; as a Rabbi in Edison, NJ, OU Rabbinic Coordinator, and auditor of local Vaadim around the country.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-08-19T18:04:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Creating Pas Yisroel</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/creating_pas_yisroel/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Breads, Muffins &amp; Rolls, Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Mishna in Avoda Zara (35b) tells us that Chazal forbade pas akum. The Gemara (36b) explains that this was done as a geder to avoid intermarriage. However Tosfos1 bring a Yerushalmi that says that a later Bes Din removed this issur. The exact extent of this retraction is a disagreement between the Mechaber and the Rama. While all agree that bread baked by an akum for personal use is still forbidden, there are differing opinions as to how careful one must be to avoid eating pas palter, bread baked by an akum for the purpose of selling.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-08-19T15:25:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Drinking Coffee on the Road</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/drinking_coffee_on_the_roadv/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Coffees &amp; Teas, Kosher Professionals, Articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Considering the long days that Mashgichim put in and the hundreds of miles that they drive daily, it is no surprise to hear that most mashgichim rely on coffee to keep them going. While caffeine is a plus for those who work in an office, for those out on the roads those 10 minute coffee stops are quite literally life savers. Let us take a moment to understand if there are any kashrus concerns with picking up a coffee while traveling on the road. This question was presented to the OU poskim Rav Schachter and Rav Belsky.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-08-19T15:18:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>No Surprise at Symrise: OU Certification Is an Important Part of Business at One of the Leading Make</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/no_surprise_at_symrise_ou_certification_is_an_important_part_of_business_at/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Flavors &amp; Flavor Chemicals, OU Companies Speak, Corporate, Case Studies</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Today’s consumers are increasingly demanding food that, in addition to tasting good, is also healthy and affordable. This poses a tremendous challenge to the food industry – a challenge that becomes still more sophisticated when kosher requirements are introduced into the equation. 
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      <dc:date>2009-08-05T19:56:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Lucid’s Lucid Decision: To Seek OU Certification to Satisfy the Kosher Market for its Genuine Absi</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/lucids_lucid_decision_to_seek_ou_certification_to_satisfy_the_kosher_market/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Alcoholic Beverages, OU Companies Speak, Corporate, Case Studies</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Lucid Absinthe, the first genuine absinthe to be legal for import and sale in the United States in over 95 years, has acquired kosher certification from the Orthodox Union. After receiving enormous interest in Lucid from consumers who keep kosher, and committed to serving that segment of the market, Viridian Spirits, owners of Lucid, contacted the OU to determine whether Lucid would qualify for the certification.  The company was delighted to learn that all of its existing processes and ingredients already were sufficient to achieve Orthodox Union’s hallowed seal.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-08-05T19:50:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>In Fine Spirits—Chicago’s First Artisan Distillery is OU Kosher and Organic</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/in_fine_spiritschicagos_first_artisan_distillery_is_ou_kosher_and_organic/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Alcoholic Beverages, OU Companies Speak, Corporate, Case Studies</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Koval is a Yiddish word for ‘blacksmith’ or ‘to forge,” but the term has also been used to refer to someone who does something out of the ordinary, or a “black sheep in the family.” It is thus fitting that Sonat Birnecker Hart and Robert Birnecker chose to name their company Koval, since it is not every day that one hears of a Professor of Jewish Studies and a Foreign Deputy Press Secretary leaving their careers to make spirits. Indeed they named the company after Sonat’s great-grandfather, a renegade in his own right, who left Vienna at the turn of the century for Chicago at the age of 17, in search of a new way of life, much to the dismay of his parents and gratitude of later generations, earning him the soubriquet, Koval. ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-08-05T19:47:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Announcing the Arrival of Geliko OU Kosher Gelatine Hydrolysate, for Kosher Food and Pharmaceutical</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/announcing_the_arrival_of_geliko_ou_kosher_gelatine_hydrolysate_for_kosher_/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Gelatin, OU Companies Speak, Corporate, Case Studies</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A basic element missing from the kosher food industry for generations was affordable cattle-derived kosher gelatine. Geliko, a world leader in kosher gelatine production, has recently announced the arrival of Geliko Kosher Gelatine and Gelatine Hydrolysate.  ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-08-05T19:45:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Glatech Productions’ Kolatin®: Real Gelatin. Real Kosher.</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/glatech_productions_kolatin_real_gelatin_real_kosher/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Gelatin, OU Companies Speak, Corporate, Case Studies</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It’s not often that a company is founded by someone who is a renowned kashrut expert. Yet, that was exactly the case with Glatech Productions. The company, founded by the legendary Rabbi Shimon Eider, a trailblazer in kashrut, manufactures a truly unique gelatin marketed as Kolatin®.
Unique gelatin? Aren’t all gelatins basically the same? What is in fact so special about Kolatin®?]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-08-05T19:43:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Cheryl&amp;Co., With its OU Certification, Strives to Be the Best Gourmet Food and Gift Company, Ever</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/cherylco_with_its_ou_certification_strives_to_be_the_best_gourmet_food_and_/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Cakes, Pastries &amp; Pies, OU Companies Speak, Corporate, Case Studies</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It was 1981, that our founder, Cheryl Krueger, with the help of her college roommate, Caryl Walker, started Cheryl&Co.  It was her desire from the beginning to create the best gourmet food and gift company.  We are pleased to say that what began as a single cookie store in Columbus, Ohio, has evolved into a multi-million dollar business. But, as successful as we’ve become, it is still our goal to focus on offering delicious, high-quality baked goods, unique gift ideas and outstanding customer service. 
Armed with just $40,000, a business degree and seven years of retail industry experience, Cheryl opened the very first Cheryl’s Cookie store at a time when banks were nervous about lending to women-owned businesses. 
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      <dc:date>2009-08-05T19:37:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>At Premier Bakers, They Are Passionate About their OU Certified English Muffins</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/at_premier_bakers_they_are_passionate_about_their_ou_certified_english_muff/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Breads, Muffins &amp; Rolls, OU Companies Speak, Corporate, Case Studies</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[At Premier Bakers Inc., we are passionate about English muffins, and not just your ordinary plain English muffin. At Premier Bakers we make fifteen different types of English muffins (and growing).  It all began in February of 2005 when Premier Bakers was acquired by Fresh Start Bakeries, a California company and a global supplier of top quality 
baked products. ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-08-05T19:34:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>That David Is One Smart Cookie</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/that_david_is_one_smart_cookie/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Cakes, Pastries &amp; Pies, OU Companies Speak, Corporate, Case Studies</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[From the humble beginnings of a lone storefront in Manhattan to the present day of three rapidly growing, bustling plants, David's Cookies has been a trend-setting icon in the gourmet food industry since its opening in 1979. ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-08-05T19:32:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town (Cartagena de Indias) Tonight: Amazon Pepper Sauces Are Fie</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/therell_be_a_hot_time_in_the_old_town_cartagena_de_indias_tonight_amazon_pe/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Sauces, OU Companies Speak, Corporate, Case Studies</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Comexa Foods is the producer of the world-renowned Amazon Peppers brand of sauces, located in the old world city of Cartagena de Indias. Bathed in the sun and by the warm clear waters of the Caribbean Sea, the rich Colombian soil produces a wide range of peppers which our group has been cultivating and processing industrially in large quantities for the world market since 1992. 
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      <dc:date>2009-08-05T19:28:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Buencafe, 100% Colombian Freeze Dried Coffee, Has Grounds to Celebrate its Great Success</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/buencafe_100_colombian_freeze_dried_coffee_has_grounds_to_celebrate_its_gre/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Coffees &amp; Teas, OU Companies Speak, Corporate, Case Studies</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Since 1927 the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, a non-profit organization, has represented the interests of more than 500,000 coffee growers in different areas through the commercialization process. One of the steps taken to increase the awareness of 100 percent Colombian Coffee® was to develop one of the most advanced plants manufacturing Freeze Dried Coffee in the world. Buencafe®, formerly Freeze Dried Coffee, has been helping not only the most demanding customers in the industry to build brands and products for more than 35 years, but works to improve the livelihood of the community of coffee growers.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-08-05T19:25:00-05:00</dc:date>
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