Emet is a kosher certification body. We review every ingredient against the plant that actually produces it, examine the equipment and the line, kasher what has to be kashered, and certify the products that come off it — pareve, dairy or meat, and Passover as a certification of its own.
Already holding a certificate?
Check its number. The paper is a snapshot; the register is the truth, and it changes the same day anything does.
Or scan the QR code printed on the certificate — it opens the same page.
Our purpose
A kosher certificate is trusted or it is worthless — there is no middle. What makes it trusted is not the design of the mark or the length of the document. It is whether the rabbinic authority behind it is real, whether the ingredient behind the product was actually verified, and whether the body will say so publicly the day something changes.
So we built the register first and the brand second. Anyone, anywhere, without an account, can find out in seconds whether a certificate is in force — including when the answer embarrasses us.
Vision
Whole categories of the world's food supply — oils, dates, herbs, cocoa products, dehydrated vegetables — are sourced from places a buyer cannot easily check, and are verified today by asking someone who knows someone. We intend that a number on a pack should answer the question by itself, wherever the pack was filled.
Mission
Verify every ingredient to the plant that makes it. Visit without warning. Put the rules, the status and the mistakes on a public page. And decline the work we are not staffed to supervise properly, rather than certify it and hope.
We never design, formulate or build the compliance we are asked to certify — not for any client, at any price.
Whoever evaluates does not decide, and fees are agreed after the rabbinic decision, never in exchange for it.
When we get something wrong we void it on the register and say so. A body that only publishes its successes is not publishing a register.
How certification works
You send your products, the plant that makes them, and every raw material with its producing plant.
We verify each raw material against the plant that actually produces it and the certification it carries. This is the longest stage, and where most applications stall.
A supervisor walks the flow of material — receiving, storage, segregation, shared lines, clean-in-place, rework, the label store.
The Rav HaMachshir decides. Whoever evaluated does not decide, and fees are agreed afterwards, never in exchange.
The certificate is sealed, numbered, published to the register, and your mark artwork and usage guide are released.
Announced and unannounced visits, ingredient spot-checks, and label approval keep it true — the certificate is valid because supervision continues, not because time passed.
The register
Asked and answered
Look the number up on the certifying body's own register rather than trusting the paper. An Emet certificate can be checked at emetkosher.com/verify, which reads the live record and shows whether it is valid, suspended, withdrawn, expired, or was never issued at all.
A mark with no letter beside it declares the product pareve — a positive claim that it contains no meat, no dairy and no fish, and was not made on dairy equipment. Fish is named because fish may not be eaten with meat, so the seal states its absence rather than leaving it to be assumed.
The Emet certification mark is the Hebrew letter aleph (א) inside a scalloped seal. With no letter beside it the product is pareve — no meat, no dairy, no dairy equipment and no fish. D means dairy, DE means pareve made on dairy equipment, MEAT means meat, and P means kosher for Passover — P never means pareve. The mark may appear only on products named on a current Emet certificate, and any certificate can be checked by its number at emetkosher.com/verify.
Emet Kosher Certification LLC is a kosher certification body: it supervises food production and issues kosher certificates to manufacturers. It is not a shop, a brand or a restaurant, and it sells no food. It certifies food, ingredients, food service and Passover production, and publishes every certificate it issues to a register that answers by certificate number. Passover is certified as a separate certificate, and no Passover certificate can be issued until the Rav HaMachshir has decided the wording one must print — ask the office where that stands before you plan a season. It holds no accreditation and claims none.
No. P beside a kosher symbol means Kosher for Passover, and never pareve. Pareve is either spelled out in full or shown by a mark carrying no letter at all. This is the single most common misreading of a hechsher.
Kosher certification is not an accredited field in the way management-system certification is, and Emet holds no accreditation and claims none. What can be judged is the rabbinic authority behind a certificate, the rules the body publishes, and whether its register tells the truth today.
Tell us what you make and where. We will tell you plainly whether we can supervise it, what it involves, and what it costs — before you commit to anything.
Apply for certificationCheck any certificate against the live register by its number, or tell us about a document that looks wrong. You need no account to do either, and you do not have to give your name to make a report.