Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food

by Timothy D. Lytton

Book Overview

Generating over $12 billion in annual sales, kosher food is big business. It is also an unheralded story of successful private-sector regulation in an era of growing public concern over the government's ability to ensure food safety. Kosher uncovers how independent certification agencies rescued American kosher supervision from fraud and corruption and turned it into a model of nongovernmental administration.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674072936
• ISBN13: 9780674072930
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"