The Shield Star K® emblem is a registered trademark protected under Federal law against unauthorized use on any product or service. It is the exclusive property of Kosher Technical Konsultants, a division of the Orthodox Jewish Council, an international organization providing the highest standards of Kashrut. Only those products and services meeting these standards are permitted to display the Shield Star K® symbol.

The administration of the Shield Star K® is comprised of a committee of exports in the various disciplines of kosher food production, such as flavor processing, dairy and bakery plants and meat processing, as well as a number of PhD level flavor chemists. The kashrut policies of the Shield Star K® are governed by a committee of a world renowned experts in kosher law. They review and decide all questions of Halacha (Jewish Talmudic Law) which may exist.

The Shield Star K® is a worldwide organization, with an international
network of regional coordinators and rabbinic representatives, all of
whom are strictly Orthodox in their personal practices and synagogue affiliations. The Shield Star K's regional coordinators are based in Israel, Chicago, Mexico, New York, Los Angeles, Western Europe, Florida, Texas, South America, and Canada, with rabbinic representatives in major Jewish communities throughout North America. The Shield Star K® pay frequent visits to major sources of kosher food or food ingredients wherever they may be. Every aspect of each product or service under the Shield Star K® supervision has been carefully reviewed by our kashrut experts, and is closely monitored on an ongoing basis both by our regional coordinators and our national administrative staff.

The Shield Star K® has pioneered many new techniques which simultaneously raise the standards of kashrut supervision while extending them and making them more accessible to a wider segment of the modern food industry. It has won the respect of many of the world's largest food producing companies for its sophisticated understanding of the manufacturing process, its trustworthiness in protecting confidential trade information, its outstanding reputation for reliability and acceptability throughout the kosher market.

The Shield Star K® emblem is a firm guarantee to all kosher consumers that the product or service which bears the symbol, is in full compliance with the most demanding kosher standards.

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