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To: Taro who wrote (276162)	2/22/2006 5:50:03 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572973

Taro re: I tried, I gave up you really should not give up that easily. I have not found a kosher pork yet but I am not planning to give up re: "Fudu Rappu" are you sure it is Japanese? :-)) Sounds like a Jewish name to me ...... re: Similar problem with quite a few other products in the US ..... Problem unsolved. don't buy what you do not want, problem solved. -AK

To: Taro who wrote (276162)	2/24/2006 6:54:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572973

Why don't you try to find (Saran) wrap without the kosher label before you even start asking? I tried, I gave up. Kosher wrap seems to have a monopoly in the US. The cost of providing a certification that increases appeal to a certain subset of the customer base isn't a tax. It would resemble a tax if it truly was involuntary on the companies part but it is not. The companies making wrap or any other product decide if they want this certification. And its not a decision made under great duress. They would only lose a small part of their market if they dropped it. If the gain in additional customers is more than the loss from having to pay for the certification process (and any possible change of manufacturing process) than the company is better off doing it and they probably will. There is no easy way to tell if it raises the price for the consumer. Additional production on the same production base lowers per unit costs. The certification process increases costs. No way for me to tell if the net effect is an increase in total per unit costs. It might result in a decrease. Even if it does result in an increase it would have to be very small (or it wouldn't be worth it for the company), and it might not affect the end price (depending on the the price elasticity of demand for these wrap products). Tim