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Chazal enacted the ban on unsupervised milk even when standard milk is normally kosher
Notwithstanding the principal of rov, unsupervised milk was subject to the aforementioned rabbinic prohibition. Thus, unless it can be fully verified that milk is from kosher species, it is prohibited without Jewish supervision.3 Like all prohibited foods, unsupervised milk renders kelim (food vessels) non-kosher when cooked in them, etc.4
Today, we commonly refer to milk under Jewish supervision as “chalav Yisroel” (“Jewish milk”), whereas milk lacking Jewish supervision is called “chalav Akum” (“gentile milk”) or “chalav stam” (“regular milk”).
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