dried fish in multi vitamins? wtf im veggo

[swaggygirl]

Can anyone tell me if this is normal I was advised to use a multivitamin so my partner spent over a hour asking for a diabetic friendly one , she chose.
 I took my first dose and a few minutes later being very bored i read the ingredients, and wtf it said "contains depending on supply dried hake or flake or cod "!!!!
 a vegetarian cannot even trust

Comments

[cholemet]

As someone who keeps kosher (Jewish dietary laws), I can tell you that ingredients are often misleading, often you can't tell that something comes from an animal. Gelatin, for example, normally comes from animal bones. Candy often contains Shellack -- that comes from bugs' wings. There's a certain red dye -- can't remember what it's called -- that comes from a beetle's wing. One helpful thing for vegetarians would be to look for kosher certification on a product -- that way you can know there's no bugs int it, and nothing from meat unless it specifically says so on the package, since Jews can't eat meat together with milk products. It still could contain something from a kosher fish, though, but it's unlikely.

Here's a list of some Kosher symbols that appear on products:
http://kosherquest.org/html/Reliable_Kosher_Symbols.htm

(Incidentally, not only Jews look for these symbols. Muslims do too, to make sure things don't have meat in them, becasue they have their own form or ritual slaughter (Jewish ritual slaughter is OK for them too). And often vegetarians will use them for the purposes I mentioned.)

[swaggygirl]

thank you chloe , yes i am aware of the meaning of the letter k withina diamond and parve my other half is russian jew and even though they do not always observe they have a double kitchen and two sets of pots . shalom