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The Kashrut Division is the largest single department of the London Beth Din (the Beth Din gives advice on halachic matters and is the ecclesiastical authority on Kashrut and Shechita for the majority of Anglo-Jewry; it supervises religious conversions, divorces, adoptions and deals with determination on Jewish status). The Division is responsible for the licensing of restaurants, hotels, bakeries and similar establishments, and supervision of catered events per year, and certification of almost 700 factories worldwide.
The Kashrut Division produces The Really Jewish Food Guide annually. This lists several thousand products whose kosher status have been approved by the Beth Din on the basis of research by Food Technologists into ingredients, processing aids, and any shared use of equipment.