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- BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesINVESTIGATIONSAre These Prices Kosher?
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- With the approach of Passover, supermarkets are carrying
- abundant supplies of matzo, the unleavened bread consumed
- during the Seder ceremony as a reminder of the Jews'
- tribulations under Pharaoh and their flight from Egypt. But
- last week a federal grand jury declared that the holiday price
- of matzo has not been kosher.
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- In an indictment handed down in Newark, the Government
- charged that the B. Manischewitz Co., the largest U.S. matzo
- baker, conspired with other firms to fix the price of products
- worth $25 million from 1981 to 1986. Jersey City-based
- Manischewitz is accused of exploiting the increased demand for
- matzo during the eight-day holiday by arranging "agreed-upon
- increases" for a variety of matzo items. Manischewitz denies
- the charges, saying its prices were "independently and fairly
- determined."
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