This is a first: a food distribution company in Woodbridge, Ontario has been fined for selling non-kosher cheese to Jewish youth camps.
Creation Foods Company pleaded guilty to misrepresenting the shredded cheddar cheese it sold to the camps in Ennismore and Haliburton.
It forged a kosher certificate after the camps complained that the packaging did not carry the usual kosher symbol, the letters C-O-R inside an oval.
Kosher rules stipulate that all components of cheese must be kosher. The enzyme used for coagulation must be of vegetable origin, poured into the milk mixture by a kosher supervisor.
Canada's Food Inspection Agency says this is the first time such a case has been dealt with in a provincial court.