Kosher Food Packaging for Deliveries
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General
- Meat, and, in general, other food that is out of a Jew's sight for a certain amount of time no longer retains its status as Kosher.[1] This fundamental principle is called Basar SheNitalem Min Haayin, and it can be applied to cases when a Jew sends food to another Jew using a non-Jewish delivery person.
- The concern is rooted in our inability to know the motivations for the non-Jews to possibly switch the Kosher food for non-Kosher equivalents. We thus would prefer the food to be watched by a Jew from the time of its production until its consumption.
- In order to assuage our need for the food to be as if it is watched constantly, we rely upon either Simanim (clear symbols)[2], ....
- This concern applies to rich delivery persons as well as it does to poor ones.[3]
- Leaving a deposit of food with a non-Jew is considered with the same analysis as cases with a non-Jewish delivery person.[4]
