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Importers Required to Guarantee Kashrus of Imported Medicines

by Eliezer Rauchberger

An agreement has been made between the chairman of the Finance Committee, Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz and the Health Ministry to the effect that all medicine importers will be required to insure the kashrus of their imports.

A new law, to be presented for Knesset approval, opens the market for the free importation of medicines by the kupot cholim as well as other importers. Until now, a limited number of importers had exclusive rights in this market.

MK Rabbi Ravitz feared that opening the market in this manner would result in kashrus problems, due to a lack of suitable kashrus supervision of the medicines' components. Therefore, before bringing this clause for approval in the committee, he determined rigid laws for guaranteeing their kashrus as well as compliance with Health Ministry regulations.


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