Religious Diet General Information.pdf
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This is a Religious Diet Specification Quote Sheet that establishes requirements for kosher meals in a federal contracting context.
All meal items offered must be certified by an accepted Orthodox Kosher certification agency from the United States or Canada, including OU, OK, Star K, KOF-K, KAJ, OKS, OV, CRC (Central Rabbinical Congress or Chicago Rabbinical Counsel), or Kosher Overseers of America. Quoters must provide a certification letter dated no more than 11 months from the quote date. Kosher items must not contain alcohol, emulsifiers, mind-altering substances, enzymes, or chemicals. Meals may be quoted as frozen and/or shelf-stable products, with pricing clearly identified by product type. Each meal must be marked with the certification symbol from the religious certification agency and include heating directions for various microwave and oven wattages.
General meal specifications for items 1 through 13 require three-compartment trays with non-metallic, microwave and conventional oven-compatible packaging, heat-sealed directly to the tray with clear plastic and wrapped with a separate sealed wrapper. No substitutions are permitted for meats, vegetables, starches, sauces, or preparation methods. Specific composition requirements apply: Mixed Vegetables must contain carrots, corn, peas, green beans, and lima beans with no single ingredient exceeding 40 percent by weight; Peas and Carrots must follow similar restrictions; Mashed Potatoes must be made from commercially prepared potato flakes without peel or fresh potatoes prepared with water, spices, and minimal binder; and Tomato Sauce must be commercially prepared or made from crushed/pureed tomatoes, tomato paste, and spices with only required binder amounts.
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Religious Certification Requirements for Meals
Kosher Items will not contain alcohol, emulsifiers, mind altering substances, enqymes and/or chemicals.
General Meal Specifications - Items 1 through 13
1 The tray for all meals will be:
a) b)
3 No substitutions may be made to the meats, vegetables, starches, sauces or preparation methods.
7 Mixed Vegetables will contain carrots, corn, peas, green beans, and lima beans with:
8 a) Not more than 40 percent by weight carrots.
b) Not more than 40 percent by weight corn (sweet, golden or yellow, whole kernel corn).
c) Not more than 40 percent by weight green peas.
9 Peas and Carrots will contain:
a) Not more than 40 percent by weight carrots.
b) Not more than 40 percent by weight green peas.
Heating directions must be provided for various wattage microwaves or oven heating including recommended method.
Mashed Potatoes will be made with commercially prepared potato flakes without peel, adding only water according to the manufacturers' preparation instructions; or fresh potatoes prepared using only water and spices with only the amount of binder which will ensure the product does separate in processing. No extenders of any type are allowed.
Tomato Sauce will be commercially prepared or crushed and/or pureed tomatoes, tomato paste and spices using only the amount of binder required to ensure the product does not separate during processing.
RELIGIOUS DIET SPECIFICATION QUOTE SHEET
GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS
All items offered on this bid must be certified by an accepted Orthodox Kosher certification agency from the United States or Canada, such as: OU - Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations; OK - Organized Kashrus Laboratories; Star K, KOF
K; KAJ
K'hal Adas Jeshurun; OKS
Organization of Orthodox Kashrus Supervision;
OV
Vaad Hoeir of Saint Louis; CRC - Central Rabbinical Congress of the USA and Canada; CRC - Chicago Rabbinical Counsel; or Kosher Overseers of America. Quoters will include a letter of certification from the religious certification agency dated no more than 11 months from the date of the quote provided.
Made with non-metallic packaging that allows microwave and conventional oven heating and be heat sealed directly to the tray with clear plastic and wrapped with a separate sealed clear plastic wrapper which encloses the entire tray.
A three compartment tray with one large compartment and two smaller compartments. Each compartment should be large enough to accommodate required ounces of product.
All meals will contain the food products per the individual product specification including the stated volume and/or weight of item as listed.
Meals (items 1 through 13) may be quoted as frozen and/or shelf stable products. Pricing must be identifiable as either frozen or shelf stable.
Each individual meal must be marked with the certification symbol from the religious certification agency.
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