Editing Kashrus (section)

== Drinks ==
In drinks there are several issues:

====== Wine ======
Wine that was used for avodah zarah is forbidden to drink and benefit from like the law of taakoroves avodah zarah. Chachamim also decreed on "stam yeinam" that it should be forbidden like wine that was used for nesech. Therefore if a goy touches wine or sees it, the wine becomes yayin nesech which is forbidden to drink etc., therefore we are very careful that a goy should not see or touch wine.

There are two ways that wine won't become yayin nesech:

# If the wine is sealed with two seals - a cork seal and a cover over it
# If the wine was cooked until boiling, then this wine is no longer fit for nesech and therefore we're not concerned. Some claim that pasteurization is like cooking but most rabbanim ruled that specifically cooking is required.

====== Cholov Yisroel ======
Any milk that was milked by a goy and a grown Yid was not present during the milking is called "cholov nochri". This milk is forbidden due to concerns that perhaps they switched the milk with milk from a non-kosher animal or mixed it in. From time to time stories are published about various ways that milk from non-kosher animals can be found even in cow's milk bottles.

The Rebbe instructs to be strict about cholov akum even for small children, even in a case of 'chashash d'chashash'.

The Frierdiker Rebbe writes about "cholov akum": "Cholov akum and the like is the weapon of the yetzer hara, which shoots its arrows from afar, and kills rachmana litzlan, or makes a person spiritually blemished."

====== Modern Drinks ======
With the advancement of technology and invention of various ways to prepare soft and carbonated drinks, one must check the food ingredients, since among the taste, smell and food coloring materials are also those produced from animals (and not always from kosher animals), and from plants (and there may be issues of orlah and terumos etc.).

====== Fruit Juices (Natural) ======

# Sometimes the juice is prepared in the same factory together with natural grape juice, and there is an issue of "yayin nesech"
# Sometimes preservatives and other materials are put into the juice, and their kashrus needs to be checked.