# Anyone know what this (kosher certification?) logo is?

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**Created:** [August 6, 2024, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-kosher-certification-logo-is/1005324 "2024-08-06T08:14:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
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I was stocking shelves at the store I work at tonight when my eyes happened to glance on the jarred artichokes, and the little logo to the right of Napoleon’s face caught my attention;

[![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53905815995_e43dccbceb_b.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53905815995_e43dccbceb_b.jpg)

I’ve never seen that particular logo before. I’m assuming it’s a kosher certification since that’s what a K on a product label almost always means, but it seems to be an outline of a geographical location I don’t recognize. The brand is from here in the Pacific Northwest, and the jar says they’re imported from Peru, but looking at a map of Peru the outline doesn’t look like any of its states, and it’s definitely not a region of the Pacific Northwest that I recognize.

Anybody happen to know what this logo means?

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**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\
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The map is of Peru as a whole. It must be the logo of Peru’s national kosher certification board.

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**Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-kosher-certification-logo-is/1005324/3 "2024-08-06T08:26:51Z")

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It does look like an outline of Peru.

Does it say on it that it is kosher? What is a “national kosher certification board”? BTW it is _not_ the logo of [www.kosherperu.com](http://www.kosherperu.com)

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**Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-kosher-certification-logo-is/1005324/4 "2024-08-06T08:56:17Z")

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> [@Chad\_Sudan](#):
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> The map is of Peru as a whole.

I was so focused on it being a part of a country that it didn’t occur to me that it would be a country itself.

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**Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-kosher-certification-logo-is/1005324/5 "2024-08-06T09:00:03Z")

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The K is a little different, but the logo looks to be the same as used by the Viru group:  
[https://www.viru.com.pe/en/certifications-food-quality-and-safety/](https://www.viru.com.pe/en/certifications-food-quality-and-safety/)

[![](https://www.viru.com.pe/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/kosher.jpg) ](https://www.viru.com.pe/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/kosher.jpg)