Tic-Tac in court
Photo: Dafna Makel
Class action over Tic-Tac's kashrut
First publication: Suit filed by kosher-keeping person after it turns out that Leimen-Schlissel markets Tic-Tac candies without valid kosher license from rabbinate. Leimen-Schlissel in response: 'Company and its managers confident their hands are clean'
A class action of NIS 205 million (USD 47 million) was filed against Leimen-Schlissel, the company which markets the candy Tic-Tac, for not having a valid kosher certificate. The one filing the suit is Ofir Fikholtz, a kosher-keeping man who has regularly consumed the product for years. Following a Ynet publication that the kosher license of Tic-Tac candy expired at the end of 2005, and that at the start of 2006 the product would no longer have a kosher certificate, Fikholtz decided to file suit against the company.
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In the suit, filed with the help of Attorneys Dr. Avi Weinrot and Yaniv Aharonovich from the offices of Dr. Weinrot and Partners, the prosecution claims that the company broke the law which forbids marking a product kosher if it hasn't been granted a kosher certificate. "The law of kashrut is a law meant to protect the kosher-keeping consumer from kashrut fraud," it was written in the suit claim.
According to the prosecution, "It turns out that in many stores in the Tel Aviv area dozens of packages of the product which were manufactured after 1.1.06 have been sold with a misleading kosher symbol on their packaging. This is despite the claims of the company that they executed a massive recall of all the products already on the shelves."
Leimen-Schlissel responded: "The company and its managers are confident their hands are clean, and in their orderly work before the authorities in accordance with the laws of the country and the religious laws on all of the brands held by them."
