ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Hechshers - food certification according to Jewish religious law</TITLE> <META NAME="Identifier-URL" CONTENT="http://www.hechshers.info/hechshers/802.htm"> <META NAME="author" CONTENT="Roger Harris"> <META NAME="Copyright" CONTENT="Roger Harris (C) 2010"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Reply-to" CONTENT="admin@hechshers.info"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Control" CONTENT="No-cache"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="english;hebrew"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="Global"> <META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General"> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,NOFOLLOW"> <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="40 Days"> <META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT"Hechshers resemble trademarks and are affixed to various foods to indicate that a regulatory body has adjudged the food to be in conformance with Jewish laws of ritual purity."> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="beth,din,fleischik,food,glatt,hechsher,hecsher,hekhsher,heksher,jew,jewish,kosher,kashrus,kashrut,label,mark,milchik,parve,rabbi,schochet,sticker,supervision,wine"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../stylesheet.css"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFF00" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#000080" ALINK="#FF0000" TEXT="#000000"> <BASEFONT FACE="arial,verdana,helvetica,sans serif" COLOR="#000000" SIZE="3"> <!-- begin:table to set page width --> <TABLE BORDER="4" BORDERCOLOR="#0000FF" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" WIDTH="640" ALIGN="CENTER"> <!-- ----------------------------- --> <!-- -- horizontal menu ---------------------------- --> <TR><A NAME="TOP"></A> <TD WIDTH="120" BGCOLOR="#87CEFA" ALIGN="CENTER"> <FONT SIZE="1">HECHSHERS<BR>SITE&nbsp;NAVIGATOR<BR><I>Click for ...</I> </FONT></TD> <TD WIDTH="940" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="2"> <A HREF="../shapes/index.htm">HECHSHER INDEX</A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="../kashauth/index.htm">KASHRUT AUTHORITIES</A> <BR><A HREF="../about.htm">about</A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="../bibliogr.htm">bibliography</A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="../glossary.htm">glossary</A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="../links.htm">links</A> <BR><A HREF="../site-map.htm">site map</A> </FONT></TD> <TD WIDTH="80" ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="../index.htm"><FONT SIZE="2">HOME<BR>PAGE</FONT></A></TD> </TR> <!-- end: horizontal menu ------------------------------ --> <TR><TD COLSPAN="3"> <P> <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR><TD WIDTH="66% ALIGN="LEFT"><SMALL>URL: http://www.hechshers.info/hechshers/802.htm [format=Unicode] <BR>E-mail: <a href="&#109&#97&#105&#108&#116&#111&#58info&#64hechshers.info">info&#64hechshers.info</a> </SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><SMALL>Compiled by Roger Shlomo Harris<BR><A HREF="../copyright.htm">Copyright</A> &copy; 2010</SMALL></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P> <CENTER> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF6699"> &#149;&nbsp;&nbsp;teudat hechsher details&nbsp;&nbsp;&#149; </FONT> </CENTER> <P> <!-- content --> <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="98%" CELLPADDING="12" CELLSPACING="3" align="center"> <TR><TD VALIGN="TOP"> <B>Authority:</B> West African Agency for Kashrut (<font size="2" color="#FF0000">Does not exist</font>) <BR><B>Licensee</B>: Aba Oil Company Ltd., Doula, Cameroon, West Africa. <BR><B>Comment</B>: See below. <P ALIGN="LEFT"><SMALL>Cross-references: <BR>1.. <A HREF="../shapes/82.htm#802">certificates</A> <BR>2.. <A HREF="../shapes/0800-0899.htm#802">all hechshers</A> </SMALL> </P> </TD></TR> <TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP"> <div align="center"> <IMG SRC="802-x540.jpg" BORDER="0" ALT="image 802"><BR>802 </div> <br> <div align="left"> <b>Interesting features of this kosher certificate - it's a forgery</b> <font class="11point"> <br>&#9679; This document is a forgery and its details were discussed in an article by Gavriel Horan and published in <a href="http://www.mishpacha.com"><i>Mishpacha</i></a> magazine, no.290, dated 30 December 2009, page 17. <br>&#9679; This document is apparently a kashrut certificate issued by the West African Agency for Kashrut yet nowhere is a WAAK contact address or WAAK telephone number shown. <br>&#9679; This document resembles the long-established, genuine kashrut certificates issued by Rabbi Ian Bailey of the Sacramento Agency for Kashrut, California, U.S.A. <br>&#9679; There is no link whatsoever between the Sacramento Agency for Kashrut and the West African Agency for Kashrut. <br>&#9679; The circle and horizontal line motif are used by the Sacramento Agency for Kashrut, California, U.S.A. and are documented in <i>Kosher Supervision Guide 2010</i> and editions in earlier years. <br>&#9679; Within the circle the Hebrew words identify the Sacramento Agency for Kashrut. <br>&#9679; Within the circle the letters WAK are not an abbreviation of <b>W</b>est <b>A</b>frican <b>A</b>gency for <b>K</b>ashrut. <br>&#9679; The Aba Oil Company Ltd exists and is based in Douala, Cameroon, West Africa. It is also known as A&nbsp;Aba&nbsp;Oil&nbsp;Company&nbsp;Ltd. It is listed on the <a href="http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/CM-suppliers/Palm_Oil/2.html">www.alibaba.com</a> on-line database where it is described as a manufacturer of edible oils, e.g. palm oil. <br>&#9679; In the address <i>00237 Tiko Douala Ave rd</i>, the number <i>00237</i> is the international telephone dialling code for Cameroon. Cameroon postcodes/zipcodes have an entirely different structure. <br>&#9679; <i>Tiko Douala Ave rd</i> might refer to an avenue or road between Tiko and Douala, Cameroon. <br>&#9679; The name shown within a cartouche, <i>R' Ian Paull Bailey</i>, is the name of the rabbi and kashrus supervisor of the Sacramento Agency for Kashrut. The name <i>Paull</i> is a valid surname but is not a commonly used forename. <br>&#9679; The Hebrew date below the cartouche corresponds to 17 December 2008, yet the certificate issue date is shown as 4 September 2007, more than sixteen months earlier. <br>&#9679; The telephone number below the cartouche is apparently that of Aba Oil Company Ltd. <br>&#9679; The names cited as Coordinator and Consultant are not officers of WAAK, but apparently officers of Aba Oil Company Ltd. <br>&#9679; The e-mail address cited is apparently that of an officer of Aba Oil Company Ltd. and not of the West African Agency for Kashrut. </font> </div> </TD></TR> </TABLE> <!-- end content --> <!-- ------------------------------------- --> <BR>&nbsp;<BR> <TABLE BORDER="0" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="BOTTOM"><TR> <TD><SMALL><I>Click the</I></SMALL></TD> <TD><IMG SRC="../backbutton.jpg"></TD> <TD><SMALL><I>button to return to the previous page</I></SMALL></TD> </TR></TABLE> <!-- end: table to set page width --> </TD></TR></TABLE> <!-- ---------------------------- --> </BODY> </HTML>