Life used to be easier in many ways. Ingredients were often simpler and manufacturing was local and more limited. When sugar prices started to get exorbitant due to the "reforms" of 1981 it served to either drive candy manufacturing across the border to Mexico or companies that remained reformulated to take advantage of lower-priced HFCS. Supply chains got more involved and ingredients were sourced from a broader range of suppliers making it more complicated to ensure that each was properly certified. It just got more complicated to get Kosher certification. It's still doable, but the market for Kosher isn't necessarily big enough to motivate some of the bigger companies.
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