Bill to Enact Federal Kosher Law Introduced in Congress

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Steps to enact federal legislation concerning the sale of kosher meat were made by Congressman Dickstein of New York who has introduced two bills in the House, one making it a federal crime to fraudulently sell non-kosher products as kosher in interstate commerce, including the misbranding of such products.

The other bill makes it unlawful to misrepresent non-kosher produces in the District of Columbia. This bill is identical with the New York law.

Congressman Dickstein stated that his interstate bill was intended to invoke the federal law to stop the imposition upon observant Jews resulting from commerce throughout the country in products fraudulently represented to be kosher. The bill would go a long way to stamp out this evil, he said, as a large proportion of these products are shipped from one state to another.