From the jungles of Peru to the fishing boats of Norway, mashgichim are there.

the most relevant part of of the Torah on a day-to-day basis is what is what we eat the work we do at the OU gives the final consumer that knowledge that okay this product is 100% kosher my name is Shan Guri I'm based out of Latin America Chile Peru Ecuador Colombia my name is Richard LaVine and my territory is south central Pennsylvania my name is sh Friedman I live in ANB I got sign to 60 or 70 factories in Italy my name is Rafi zero I cover Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Indiana we're doing as the actual hash gaka work on the ground at the companies in some of the most remote areas in the world into the jungle we're going up the mountains across Rivers you go on the fishing boats you're disconnected from the world no computers not phone do you come to these companies that are making chemicals ingredients and flavors it's not like you get a product you buy it and it's koser and it's okay there's a lot of work behind it and this is what the OU is about my job is to make sure that each one of my companies is following their kosher program as was set up by the OU the ingredients the finished products um the koshering of equipment as needed we're really there at every single company if it says Made in Chile made in Peru we're there we're visiting companies that do frozen mango we're visiting companies that do wine we're visiting companies that do cookies we go in unannounced we have a listing of every ingredient in the plant it tells us what the ingredient is any specific information that needs to be applied we have to go in and verify that these are the same ingredients that they said coming from the same suppliers schedule B is the list of final product so every item that they sell at has an OU has to be on schedule B we're looking to see what they're doing when we're not there what things are they doing for other companies that might not be their own products we're making sure that what we say is kosher is 100% kosher the reason we work in cash it's not only about the money it's also thees that you do for people around the world everywhere the most satisfying part of me working with the OU is working with the communities in Latin America providing KS to them being able to go out every day and visit different cities and different places and having the relationships that I've had over the years with a lot of wonderful wonderful people and I've really enjoyed that and I love my work especially when I go in a place where there's nothing and I walk into the store and I see you owe you on a product I say you see this is what we do so it makes me [Music] happy