What is Mehadrin?
Mehadrin refers to the most stringent level of kosher supervision. Kosher food is prepared to meet the specific requirements of Jewish law, but compliance may be more or less strict depending on where you live and the knowledge of the community there. Anyone who chooses to eat mehadrin isn't taking advantage of any leniency and follows the highest standards of kosher.
Continental Kosher Butchers only manufacture products of mehadrin standard.
Who are Kosher Australia and a brief history?
Established in 1968 in response to a need for proper Kosher food for the Australian Jewish Community, Kosher Australia has grown to be the largest and most relied upon Kosher authority in the Asia Pacific region servicing more than 700 Australian and international companies from flavour manufacturers to retail outlets and caterers. Kosher Australia certifies more than 25,000 products and over 750,000 kosher meals are prepared annually under Kosher Australia supervision.
Over 10,000 locally made retail products are supervised by Kosher Australia including such products as Vegemite, Weet Bix, Vita Brits, SPC fruits, Heinz tomato soup, Rosella sauces, Schweppes lemonade, Berri juices, Vitasoy, IXL jams, Sunrice rice cakes, Chobani yogurts, Smith potato chips, and many other well-known products.
Kosher products are found in the printed Kosher Australia food Guide (the 46th edition was recently released) and the Kosher Australia app (freely available from the Apple and Google stores).
Kosher Australia consists of a team of professionals in food technology, manufacturing and kosher supervision, guided by the leading Australian Rabbis who are acknowledged world experts in the field of Kashrus.
What do Kosher Australia do to ensure the highest level of adherence to Kashrus at their licensed facilities; in particular meat?
Kosher Australia have trained and experienced staff of impeccable trust stationed at all facets of the Continental Kosher Butcher operations.
At the abattoir, the typical team consists of four shochtim and a mashgiach with combined experience of over 100 years. There is the shochet (the person who performs the shechita), bodek sakinim/simonim (a shochet who will check the knife used as well as to ensure that the cut was done correctly severing the correct organs), bodek pnim (a shochet who will check the inside of the animal’s lungs) and a bodek chutz (who will inspect the outside of the animal’s lungs).
At the factory there are 3 skilled menakrim (Kosher Australia staff trained in deveining) on duty as long as the factory is operating. All meat is kept under coded lock and key, which are controlled by Kosher Australia staff. Continental Kosher Butcher staff do not have access to these locks or keys.
At the Continental Kosher Butcher retail outlet, Kosher Australia supervisors are ever present and as at the factory, all meat is kept under Kosher Australia lock and key.