"Is The OU Hechsher Really That Bad?" and other Kashrus Q&A with Rabbi Yechezkel Auerbach

0:00 Intro

4:00 Kashrus of medication

5:52 Pills

6:40 Soft gels

8:15 Flavored medications for children

12:00 Chewables

13:17 Coated pills

13:50 Homeopathic pills

15:50 OTC medicine like cough medicine.

17:07 Vitamins

20:00 Hechsheirim on drinks.

23:25 When some items of a company are kosher and some not.

25:00 Flavored drinks

27:27 "100% juice"

29:50 Heimishe hechsher with a mashgiach vs national hechsher that relies on computers.

30:50 Is The OU Hechsher Really That Bad?

34:29 Slurpees

36:22 Seltzer

39:40 Brandname or Chainstore products

42:48 Frum stores repackaging without a mashgiach

50:45 Need for a mashgiach in schools and camps

52:55 Food manufactured in kosher homes for parties.

55:52 Good hechsheirim that start outgrowing themselves.

58:50 Giving a Hechsher after someone else removed it.

1:00:00 Candy

1:01:01 China

1:03:45 Paper Dishes from china

1:06:02 Keilim that say they don't require Tevilah / Keilim Mikvaos inn stores without a hechsher

1:11:57 Coffee & Tea

1:16:08 Cheese

1:17:58 Uber Eats

1:19:03 Mutiple Hechsheirim on an item

1:26:38 Grape Juice

1:35:05 Chabura Matzah

1:40:30 Lettuce

1:42:50 Talking Lashon Hara about stores, hechsheirim etc.

1:53:20 Vaping

1:55:50 Gum

1:57:20 Mouthwash

2nd day Chol Hamoed Pesach 5785