Is white sugar treif?

A paragraph in a recent New Scientist suggests there may be a kashrut
problem in the manufacture of white sugar.

http://www.newscientist.com/backpage.ns?id=mg18925352.300

The relevant paragraph is extracted below

By the way, some companies use "bone char", which is made from animal
bones, in the filters used to remove the colour from sugar. Such sugar
is therefore unsuitable for vegetarians and possibly also forbidden by
certain religious diets such as kosher.

Jessica Fryer, Vegetarian chef, Canberra, Australia

>From issue 2535 of New Scientist magazine, 21 January 2006, page 81


--
Henry Goodman
henry dot goodman at virgin dot net


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