Questions about OU-DE

so the most common popular question we get at the ou is none of the product has been identified as dairy equipment what does that mean what that means is that you can't eat it with meat but you can't you can eat it right after meat the example i always give when i'm asked this question if someone has a clean dairy pot and they cook some spaghetti in that pack are they allowed to eat that spaghetti with meatballs no are they allowed to eat the spaghetti right after meatballs yes so if you have a dessert that's labeled d e and you just had a meat dinner you could eat the de dessert right after you meet dinner don't need to wait six hours or whatever your customers to wait but you can't eat the de product together with meat there are actually many products that are labeled oud but are really dairy equipment the reason that it doesn't have the dairy equipment designation on it could be for various reasons one is sometimes companies don't want to start making dairy and de they just want to have a consistent d symbol and sometimes the companies want to have the right to revert back to using the dairy designation even though currently the product is dairy equipment so the question is i buy product i look at the ingredients i don't see anything dairy on it does that mean it's de the answer is no because you're not really an expert on what all ingredients are and what you think may not be dairy is dairy so what do i do now the answer is you look at the audio website or you call the ou and we have the information on many products that although they're labeled oh you dairy or od are really de and we'll be glad to share that information with you however don't make any assumption yourself because there may be dairy ingredients you just don't recognize it or we may be made on dairy equipment that's not clean if it's not clean from any dairy residue it's going to be really you