Update: Don't use the "Positive-shmatah" for filtering juice, use the 70-80 mesh sifter only

The size of the scale insect is 21 to the inch according to The Universities of Minnesota, Florida, UCLA Davies, Clemson, etc.  Therefore an insect of 21 to the inch will not pass through a mesh of 70 to the inch.

Don't use the "Positive-shmatah" for filtering juice which is viscous, use the 70-80 mesh sifter only.
You should use the right tools for the job, a pliers or wrench may turn the screw (and damage it.) Note: The shmatah is for only for non-viscous liquid, i.e. water

All Orange Juice requires filtering through a 70-80 mesh filter.
Canned Pineapple packed in it's own juice may have insects or parts of insects.
The 70-80 mesh filter should be used for that as well.
The pineapple should be rinsed.

Tropicana Orange Juice is no problem "IF"?

Don't use the "Shmatah" to filter the Juice.

Ask Reb Shlomo Miller, 
Tropicana Orange Juice is no problem (if)                              
If you filter it through a 70-80 mesh sifter.

All Orange juice should be filtered through a 70-80 mesh sifter.

The Scale insect

The scale insect common in citrus fruits and in the juice extracted has an 

interesting life cycle.

The insect goes through different stages also called molts.
The insect crawls for about 2 days till it finds a citrus fruit that it can draw food from with it's feeding tube inserted in the fruit.
The insect then excretes a scale covering in an oblong shape that covers essentially it's whole body, leaving some room for offspring etc.

At a following stage or molt, it's legs that are not needed anymore are dried up,[ or withdrawn] as Rav Avigdor Miller Z"L describes Hashem's wondrous creations. In the females of the scales the antennae and legs are not lost, but are reduced to such an extent that though the adults can move about somewhat they seldom do.

It's time for the insect under the scale to reproduce, it is "roch'esh" backwards to the oblong point of the scale covering where there is a minute hole that was not covered by the scale excretion.
The male insect can then line up with the female for reproduction purposes.
The female moves forward "roch'esh" and produces it's offspring. after a while the offspring will leave the shelter of the scale covering.

For the minute movements under the scale the insect does not need it's legs, but still is able to move.
The snake that hashem removed it's legs, is still a beryiah, can still move, etc.

There is another fascinating thing about the life cycle of the scale insect. It's legs do not have joints, so they can't fold. With the legs in it's original position will prevent the insect from being able to be in position for reproduction.Nif'lois ha'borei.

The legs are not necessarily removed, it may be withdrawn into the body. There are no dried out legs found. In the females of the scales the antennae and legs are not lost, but are reduced to such an extent that though the adults can move about somewhat they seldom do.

When the scale insect has to reproduce, and goes into stage #3, it stops feeding entirely [the feeding tube is withdrawn]. The salmon when they go to spawn, they also stop all eating completely.

After it was with the male scale insect it does not continue to feed at all, it just reproduces. then it's in the next stage of its cycle and does not continue to feed.

Alert: Pineapples and pineapple "packed in it's own juice"?

As is well known, Pineapples do have insects in the crown and in the brown parts of the skin peel.
Some Pineapples were found to have have mealybugs  past the brown area as well, it must be checked by experts in infestation.

Now it was discovered another insect issue with canned pineapple. "Packed-in-its-own-juice". The canned pineapple is raw not cooked, how do they get the "Packed-in-its-own-juice"?

They take the skin / peel, etc with all of the inherent insects and cook it to obtain the pineapple-juice.

Is the somewhat viscous juice filtered? If yes, with what size filter?
We asked some
of the heimish certifiers and they refuse to respond.

״אדם חזק מאוד הוא אדם שמעדיף שיפגעו בו עם האמת מאשר שינחמו אותו עם השקר״

״אדם חזק מאוד הוא אדם שמעדיף שיפגעו בו עם 

האמת 

מאשר  שינחמו  אותו  עם  השקר״

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

The unfinished batttle against the modern "Misyavinim" in kashrus

From an Email:
Rav Shimon Schwab spoke at a convention about "The unfinished battle against the modern "Misyavinim". We think there is another modern "Misyavnim" brewing in kashrus, which is being mitamtim our hearts and our children's hearts as well. It is not the Organizational Hashgochas that are the Misyavnim.

The Heimish Hashgochas in it's infancy was supposed to provide to the discerning kosher consumer a product that is of a higher degree in kashrus. As the Heimish Hashgocha industry has mushroomed beyond imagination. There are currently more so called heimish hashgochas than there were a total hashgochas just a few years ago. It is strictly driven by financial incentives.

The discernible consumer became more educated and realized that it has actually taken us in the opposite direction. The Heimish Hashgochas are taking the attitude "trust me, I'm Heimish", with a complete disregard for the discernible consumer.  The discernible consumer can not (in all fairness) rely on most
of the Heimish hashgochas in general.

In many aspects the Organizational Hashgochas are more reliable. The Organizational Hashgochas (at least some) have a high regard for the kosher consumer and especially for the discernible consumer.  It's time to wake up and smell the coffee, before we realize "the Emperor hath no clothing". It's all a bluff with a higher price.

Kashrus Alert: consumer beware

The Good Life Cheese’s Horseradish Cheddar is one of a large selection of kosher cheese varieties. Foodworks Cheese is out of Monsey, NY. It is certified by Rabbi Dovid Katz of Avenue L in Brooklyn, NY, and it is Kosher for Passover year round.

This company was owned and operated by a Heshy Gottesman, who had a mixed reputation and was sort-of semi-orthodox . There was some kind of a scandal years ago with him and his cheeses. Maybe more than one, and maybe he also relied on the opinion which is not accepted lehalacha that any vegetarian rennet is not part of the issur of gevinas akum.

There are suspicions that Rabbi Hazdan of Staten Island, who boasts of being a talmid of Rav Moshe, gives hashgocho on Amy's frozen meals made with cheese relying on that opinion too.

But now Gotesman is publicizing that he has supervision of Rabbi Dovid Katz,

Orange juice

בענין ה"כנימה" שנמצאת בפרי הדר ובהמיץ שלהם Scale insects in Orange Juice

עיין עירובין י"ג: בענין לטהר השרץ בק"ן טעמים, ע' תוספות שם

עיין בסנהדרין י"ז. תוס' שיודע וכו' וקשה לר"ת דמה לנו בחריפות של הבל     לטהר השרץ שהתורה טימאתו

עיין בשו"ת שבט הלוי חלק ז' 

ובסוף סימן קכ"ד וזה לשונו "ואשרי הנזהר שלא להשתמש בכל ההיתרים, והשי"ת יצילנו מתולעים ןמשגיאות, עכ"ל.

In the USA there is no Bitul by the Orange Juice

 דבר שיש לו מתירין!

As Reb Shlomo Zalman, Z"L said "americanah Rabbonim zuchen nuhr heteirim. 

בענין ה"כנימה" שנמצאת בפרי הדר ובהמיץ שלהם Scale insects in Orange Juice

בענין ה"כנימה" שנמצאת בפרי הדר ובהמיץ שלהם

עיין חזון אי"ש סימן י"ד

עיין ט"ז בש"ע יו"ד ס' ק"ד בסוף

עיין שו"ת שבט הלוי חלק ז' סימן קכ"ג, ס' קטן ז' או המילבן איך יתכן שבריבוי תולעים לא ימצא הרבה ודאי פירשו.

עיין שו"ת שבט הלוי חלק ז' סימן קכ"ד, סימן קטן א'-דגם משום חשש התלעה בתלוש אם דרכו בכך חייב בבדיקה, ולא מהני ס"ס לכתחילה בזה וכו'

אבל כבר פשט המנהג בכל ישראל שדברים שיש בהם חשש מילבן בעיתים המצויות שלא לאכלם כלל, או לאכלם רק ע"י בדיקה היטב כמש"כ במנח"י כלל מ"ו סוס"ק י"ח וכו'... ואין להתיר דבר כזה בדורינו דמי יהי' בקי בין קטנים ביותר לבינונים וגדולים במכת המילבן. נ.ב. ה"כנימה" גדולה מהמילבן פי כמה.

סימן קטן ב'- בענין בדיקת האורז....דשכיכי ב' מיני תולעים, תולעים ממש דקל לבדקן והמין השני הוא הכינמה דהיינו מילבן וזה ישנו ג"כ בבדיקה ע"י חמין ועין יפה ומבדקא בשמש או זכוכית מגדיל ראות יע"ש עוד.

ולא הבינותי.......אבל לבדוק להחמיר ע"י זכוכית כזה באורז וכיו"ב כדי להרגיש במה שצריך להרגיש אלא לפעמים העין קצר הראות ועין חדה יכולה לראות כזה ועין בינוני לא מרגיש רק ע"י זכוכית כזה אין זה בדיקה להקל אלא להחמיר במה שצריך להחמיר....ובודאי מה שאין עין אדם אפילו הכי חדה וחריפה יכולה לראות כלל בזה בוודאי א"צ לבדוק כלל,..

ובסוף סימן קכ"ד וזה לשונו "ואשרי הנזהר שלא להשתמש בכל ההיתרים, והשי"ת יצילנו מתולעים ןמשגיאות, עכ"ל.

Update-2: Lakewood Shopper farneigeled out a million dollar building from Lakewood "taxpayers"

It's important to write nice articles about Lakewood Fire Department Commissioners, that way a newspaper could get for free a million dollar building Department and Fire Police Station, 40 Clover Street, on the backs of Lakewood taxpayers.

The commissioners say they fear the shopper terroristic tactics "we will "bashmutz" you in our paper". 

We are all wondering aloud? Is the Township committee also afraid of the "shoppers terroristic threats"?

Bulletin: Mike Delia (Lakewood Township Committee) fears and dreads the wrath of the Shopper.

The Shopper will allow LCSW to use part of the building.


Even if it's leased by the Township then leased to the Shopper the building may become taxable.

Why doesn't the Fire Department put it up for sale?
Because the Shopper will write a damning article about them?

Orange juice- filter your juice with a 70 mesh sifter

Rabbi Belsky told Torah V'Daas to take all of the Orange Juice that Chaim Berlin & other Rabbonim are getting rid of because it's אסור. Rabbi Belsky told Torah V'Daas to filter all the juice as it says in Halacha.

שולחן ערוך יו"ד סימן ק"ד סעיף ג

דברים המאוסים שנפשו של אדם קצה בהם

 כנמלים וזבובים ויתושים שכל אדם בודל מהם למיאוסן 

אפילו נתערבו בתבשיל ונמחה גופן לתוכו 

אם ההיתר רבה עליו מותרים 

ומכל מקום כל שאפשר לבדוק ולהעביר במסננת בודק ומסנן.

Update: Orange Juice ע"פ מסורה

FDA permitted insects in Orange Juice

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

FDA

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Protecting and Promoting Your Health

Citrus Fruit Juices, Canned	Mold (AOAC 970.75)	Average mold count is 10% or more
	Insects and insect eggs (AOAC 970.72)	5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml [1 cup]
	DEFECT SOURCE:  Mold - processing contamination, Fly eggs and/or maggots - post harvest insect infestation

Full Orange Juice report 14 pages

send email to kashrusy@aol.com   subject line OJ report

Oat Matzos? Update:

 Oat matzos- Oats have a natural bitterness caused by an enzyme. In order to deactivate that enzyme, the oats are steamed, not with any induced steam. The oats are heated on trays in an oven, the internal steam deactivates the enzyme.

A local NJ Matzah bakery is claiming (falsely) that their oats are not steamed, we verified and found that their oats are indeed steamed.  Therefore the hot steam which is "mai-pei'ros" is a big concern. Dayan Weiss, Z"L, in Minchas yitzchok takes issue with using oats for Matzos.

Reb Moshe Shternbuch, shlita in his most current sefer says Re: Oat Matzos- because of the heated internal steam being used to deactivate the bitter enzyme one may not bake the oat matzos with any water at all only "mai -peiros" as any water introduced will cause it to become chometz immediately.

Anyone that must have Oat Matzos for pesach that was not steamed or heated at all "prior to baking", should be in touch with us after purim. It will be available then.

Update: The final PSAK, Reb Chaim agrees that Orange juice must be filtered prior to use.

אין לחשוש לדיעות כוזבות של חוקרים ומדענים וכדו' רק תורתינו הקדושה ע"פ 
המסורה" מדור דור


Rav Moshe Vaye is addressing the USA Orange Juices, i.e. Tropicana, among the other USA brands.

Others are attempting a spin that Reb Shlomo Zalman was addressing home / store squeezed orange juice only, because commercially processed orange juice is much cleaner.

The cold facts are  just the opposite.
The commercial process subjects the fruit to a very abusive process as can be seen by the peels that is left.

There is an additional factor that some processors subject the orange to hundreds of needle pricks in to the fruit in order to extract the orange oils. Those pricks loosen many more of the insects. I have inspected many Orange Juice plants in the USA and S. America.

Alert: Chicago definition of "milk"

CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -

Speaking of animals, another new law expands the definition of legally saleable milk to include milk from sheep, water buffalo and other hooved animals. 

Tropicana- Update- Reb Chaim wrote in Taameh Di'krah " the Chazon Ish used to filter the citrus juice because of insects on the citrus peel"

לא צריכין לחשוש לדעות כוזבות של חוקרים, מדענים וכו'- אין לנו רק תורתינו הקדושה שנמסר לנו לדורי דורות ע"י המסורה- מפי מרן הרה"ג ר' ' חיים, שליט"א"

A very misleading and factually not correct scenario was presented to Reb Chaim yesterday.

Reb Chaim is still of the opinion that the Citrus (Orange) Juice must be filtered properly.

Update: Tropicana Orange Juice

DECEIT THRU OMISSION

Since it is impossible to hide the scale bug infestation the media now has to turn to a different approach with their propaganda to explain the issue. They are now trying to convince people that even though every expert Bodek is finding infestation [without the use of a loupe] contrary to the OK claim that it doesn’t exist, do not worry there are Poskim who say it is mutter. (we created a Heter!)

This is evident from the following article that has been released. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/278093/tropicana-orange-juice-an-update.html

IGNORANCE IS BLISS

  The author in his previous article http://5tjt.com/are-the-bugs-in-tropicana-orange-juice-kosher showed that he was completely confused between bug parts and whole bugs (the Issur of Beryah). The issue of Beryah is that it is not Batul even though it cannot be removed or recognized until it dissolves in the Heter. This is an Issur Derabonon. 

The issue with Orange Juice is bug parts. If they can be removed then there is an Issur Doraisoh. This also applies to whole bugs that can be removed. Since the author was evidently not knowledgeable in this subject at all, he spilled the beans and reported what he really found.

The testing revealed that each cup of Tropicana Pure Premium had on average of between three and four scale bug parts in the juice that are visible to the naked eye on a light box. 

This was verified through the use of a USB microscope. In experiments conducted this week, about 1 in 20 cups actually revealed a fully intact scale bug. This is after examining four containers.

Since his job is now probably in jeopardy he is practicing damage control and trying to convince people that there is nothing wrong with Tropicana. In the current article he writes the following;

This author was working within the p’sak of those poskim who rule that in order for a scale bug to be forbidden as a berya (creature), it must be identifiable in the mesh filter without use of a jeweler’s loupe or magnifying agent (such as the new USB microscopes). Without the jeweler’s loupe, I was not finding an infestation level above 1 in 20 cups. We don't know the expertise or lack thereof of the tester.

Why is there an omission of the BUG PARTS results 20 cups with 3-4 avg. parts per cup for 20 cups, all visible to the naked eye on a light box no loupe necessary. To try and answer this question the author writes section III. The Intactness of the Bug.  In part I he states “the “dot” must be a fully intact bug in order to be considered forbidden in a mixture.” 

This is 100% wrong. The requirement to be fully intact is only relevant to the rule of Beryah if the head, feet, and wings of a bug were removed and it falls in to a mixture and can be removed thru straining  it is an Issur Doraisoh to eat or drink that mixture. The issue of Larvae is also only relevant to Beryah and we are not discussing Beryah but we are worried about mutilated scale bugs.

In part III he states the following “III”. Some have expressed the idea that the “dot” is forbidden even if it is only a bug part. They hold that in reference to this issue, Tosfos “Hahu” (A.Z. 69a) is the more normative view than that of Rabbeinu Tam or the Rosh. 

The first problem is the Tosfos he quotes brings the Rabbeinu Tam and does not argue on him. So Tosfos, Rabbeinu Tam and the Rosh all agree. What they all agree on, is that the feet or wings of a שרץ are Mutar but under no circumstances is the בשר of a שרץ  Mutar. What we are finding in Tropicana are mutilated scale bugs which no שיטה in the world permits.

A: few words about size and נראה לעינים. The author writes in section II part B as follows;         B: Other poskim hold that a bug is considered nirah l’einayim only if it can be identifiable as a bug to the trained person’s naked eye. They hold that if it appears as only a “dot” to the unaided eye and is identifiable as a bug only with magnification, there is no obligation to look at it under magnification, and it is permitted. This is the way they understand the Rema (in Y.D. 84:6).  

    

This is also 100% wrong. There are dozens of Seforim over the last several hundred years which discuss the problem of mites (מילבין) in flour. The size of the largest mites are .7 millimeters. They only appear as a speck. Unless we are willing to say that all the Achronim are in error and flour mites are Muttar we have to assume that there is no requirement to be able to identify what the speck is and as long as the speck is visible it is called נראה לעינים It is also impossible to fit their understanding in the Rama.

In comparison the smallest scale bugs range between 1-3 millimeters so they are much larger than mites and are definitely Assur. In addition the author cannot name a Posik or any written source that have studied scale bugs and then said they were not נראה לעינים and Muttar.

It is obvious the intention of the author and his publisher are to follow the paradigm discussed in our previous post, PROMOTE (your advertisers) and PANDER (your readership) regardless of the truth. No one should be naïve enough to rely on anything they see or hear from these people. They will continue to cross the Globe to find that elusive Heter, as Rav Shlomo Zalman Aurebach, Z”L said, Americanah Rabbonim are always looking for heteirim.

Toshav Monsey                                                                          toshav@optimum.net

Alert: Quaker quick oats infested

Quaker quick oats infested
42 oz (L-340) best by Feb 15  '16

Olive oil adulteration-again

Another factor Greek prices are dropping is the growing concern over EEVO adulteration. This year, some Greek olive oil companies began importing repaso olive oil from Spain. Repaso is the process of passing the olive paste waste through the centrifuge a second time with hot water.
      This way, the remainder of olive oil left behind in the olive paste is extracted. Some Greek producers mix it with EEVO; something that Italian producers have been accused of for years. Greek legislation prohibits mills to produce repaso oil.

The “Hellenization” of Spanish repaso olive oil was suspected to be the main reason prices of Greek EVOO have dropped, according to Olive Oil Times. The Greek government has pledged to strengthen controls to protect the quality of local olive oil.

interesting video re: scale insects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wCGfZkv88A

Update: Korn's @ Kikar Shabbos- call the Hashgocha?

She is still working there like nothing ever happened 

I hear the Mexican workers making dirty jokes to her in Spanish...

I know enough Spanish to understand .....  

Thanks To the Korn's store that it was [partly] corrected, "partly"??? Gevald.


1- There shouldn't be any ladies working there, the space is also tight and bumping is inevitable.

There are older women perhaps that can be hired.

Korn's was afraid if Satmar Dayan leaves them, KCL will force themselves on him and kashrus will go down the tubes like all of the other KCL places.

From an EMAIL
The new Korns at Kikar Shabbis has a Mexican lady working there who is loaded with makeup and long Jewlery and is not appropriate to be working in a Frum KCL store. The owner Hershkowitz is busy not touching her etc. And the men keep staring at her while she loves smiling to the men

Korns son works there and has no problem bumping into her

I work upstairs and see it every day and she has to go as men are getting.........

Rav Shmuel Wosner on kashrus issues in general- לא ראינו אינו ראיה

הרה"ג שמואל הלוי וואזנר שליט"א אמר שמה שהרמ"א אומר ביו"ד ס'' ס"ד סעיף ו' ..צריך ראיה מן הבקי [או מומחה] ואי אפשר לבאר היטב בספר וכו'' בזה נכלל כל עניני כשרות. הרב או הבעל מכשיר מקומו בבה"מ, והמומחה בודק כל הענינים והמציאות, ואח"כ שואל להרב ההלכה והדרך איך לסדר  יצור 

עצהי"ט, אבל רק המומחה קובע המציאות.   וכו' 

The Experts in insects determined the facts re: Orange Juice infestation.

It's  ובגדר מיעוט המצו' ונראה לעינים

The experts in insects were from Lakewood, Brooklyn, Monsey, Eretz Yisroel, etc.
Some of the experts, Feingold, Strasser, Einhorn, Goldstein, Green, Rav Moshe Vaye, R' Shmuel Sternfeld, etc 

לא ראינו אינו ראיה

Get your daily requirement of protein in your juice, albeit non-kosher.

According to Tropicana Company, their juice products contain;
 Cochineal insects, 
Fish by product, 
Beef (treif) by product, 
We know that their orange juice contains scale insects. 

http://pepsicobeveragefacts.com/

MORE BAD NEWS FROM BAD NEWS-SITE

MORE BAD NEWS FROM                BAD NEWS-SITE

There is a Sefer named זכרון יעקב written by Rabbi Yaakov Lifschitz the secretary to Rav Yitzchok Elchonon. He was the grandfather or great grandfather of Rabbi Lifschitz on Route 306 in Monsey, and Pinny Lifschitz, Editor of the Yated newspaper and Matzav site.

He writes that one of the main reasons the השכלה  was Matzliach in Russia was because the government controlled the press and the government was on the side of the Maskillim so therefore there was no way to counter the countless derogatory articles they published against the חרדים. This caused thousands of Yidden to leave Yiddishkeit because they only heard fabrications of how bad Yiddishkeit is.

The same is true today on the Kashrus front no paper or Heimishe Website will publish an expose or go up against a Kashrus agency since the largest portion of their revenues come from food establishments and food companies. [One hand washes the other-נטילת ידיים]

CRC- Hisachdus- Their non-standard on insects, infestation- Brazilian OJ?

The CRC Hisachdus certify Bodek Fruits and vegies as free from insects. The Bodek products were checked by mimchim and they are infested with more than מיעוט המצאוי.

They certify Bodek's Garni-bags which fully grown insects pass right through the large holes. We sent them a video of it, Hisachdus did nothing about it, they continue selling it.

They Certify Gevina with actual fruit of muchzak to be infested, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries.

The certified Golden Taste's infested romain, etc (Golden says it was a mistake, Hisachdus doesn't care)

Their certified infested caterers, restaurants, etc

The are aware that their certified Orange Juice is infested. Therefore they sent a delegation
( Delegation had no experts in infestation) to Brazil to see how to solve the infestation issue of their orange juice (as if they care about insects).

They saw "no-problem" (because, no experts). Hisachdus Bais Din will all say together at their next meeting, בכובד ראש
, מותר לך,מותר לך, מותר לך



Others are saying there is now already a שבת גוי לתולעים available, and they aren't even expensive.

Kashrus Alert: Gevina brand yogurt with real fruit,"muchzak" to be infested

Kashrus Alert: 
Do not buy the Gevina brand Yogurts  with real fruit- Strawberries, Blueberries, Raspberries, etc, due to infestation issues.


Buy the J&J, Mehadrin, Norman's, etc brands, they don't use real fruit. They use the micron-filtered juice only.

What size of insect is to be considered "visible" according to the Gedoilei Hapoiskim?

The Pollyanna approach to kashrus of Orange Juice by Rabbonim- aka- Minhag Amerika

Rav Zelig Epstein, Z"L said that kashrus issues should be addressed to the Consumers only.
The Rabbonim have their "agendas", kashrus is not on the list of "their agendas".

Kashrus certifiers and some Rabbonim as well prescribe to the motto, be very scrupulous  in "netil'as- yudai'yim " ( where one hand, washes the other hand).

Therefore he said address the consumers. Every manufacturer, distributor, store owner, kosher certifier, Rabbonim fear the consumer. Without the consumer , the Hashgocha, manufacturer, store, Rav are all out of business.

The consumer's advocate is like the tiny mouse, you never know when he'll scurry across your path, and everyone runs to close all of their open food containers- The mouse will inspect its contents and the kashrus of it as well.

OU fish gelatin, utilizes li'chatchila bitul of non-kosher fish?

An Email re: OU's Daf Hakashrus:

Quote-"When gelatin manufacturers receive bulk deliveries of fish skin, there is often the chance that a small amount (well below bitul) of non-kosher skins might be mixed in. 

Shulchan Aruch (114:10) says that mixtures of small fish that may contain some non-kosher by-catch are assur, even if the amount of non-kosher is very small, since we are concerned that one may end up eating a piece of the treif. 

However, in this situation Rav Belsky and Rav Schachter agreed that since the skins are dissolved and become a ta’aruvos lach b’lach, any potential non-kosher skins will be batel. 

Therefore, we need not sift through the skins; however, the mashgiach needs to know the difference between the kosher and non-kosher skins so that he can guarantee that the number of non-kosher skins will be well below bitul".

Ordinarily, we require labeling a product (U) fish even if the fish is batel, if fish is not identified on the ingredient label. This is because otherwise a consumer who wishes to be machmir for the opinion of Taz that fish is not batel b’shishim, would have no way to know. However, regarding fish gelatin, Rav Belsky said one need not be concerned for the Taz, since the halacha follows the Shach that there is bitul with fish and there is reason to say that in this case even the Taz would be lenient.

Tropicana heteirim? לא דובים ולא יער

Tropicana juice's Heteirim? לא דובים ולא יער
All based on facts that don't exist, Reb Dovid, Reb Shlomo & Reb Usher were sold a bill of goods, all fabrications. 

Update: Tropicana Orange Juice Teshuva

Copies available kashrusy@aol.com Subject-Tropicana


All of the trained or semi-trained all saw " whole-insects".

The fragments, parts, fruit parts, etc. bubbah- mai'sis are the fabrications of the OK et al.

Solution: Filters for Orange Juice insects available at your hardware stores

Pele- 70 mesh sifters for Orange Juice insects available at your hardware stores.

manual                                                         electric

The Aida- Yerushalm says one should filter Orange Juice with a 70 mesh filter.
Rav Moshe Vaye said "bi'pashtus" a 70 mesh is sufficient, If someone wants do it twice he could but once is sufficient.

Monsey (of fame) does it again- KYO Restaurant caught in the act-

Monsey (of fame) does it again-  

KYO treif Restaurant caught in the act, "again".

Rabonim say,
The people must eat someplace.
Monsey shtut is also a place that it's  usually a

דבר שיש לו מתירין

Remember- the Monsey Shatnez scandal is still going on, it even spread to Lakewood. 

CRC- Hisachdus kashrus standards are the same as the OK

Why doesn't the Hisachdus CRC allow Tropicana Orange juice?  because of the infestation.

We are sure we don't have to educate anyone to the OK standards.
In the OK's Kislev 5771 "chanukah", there is a letter from Rabbi Benyumin Aryeh Glick Executive Rabbinic Coordinator of the CRC Hisachdus  to the OK magazine Kosher spirit.

In the letter he praises the OK's kashrus standards, which he calls "perfect".
He also addresses that other hechsherim (Hechsherim are the heimish hashgochas, not kosher certifiers) can not or will not meet the OK's standards.

He also praises the Ok's stand on the story of the adulterated Shufra Pesach cocoa saga.

What's with the "waxes" on cherries? kosher?

Kashrus Alert: Update: PINEAPPLE infested beyond the brown parts

Update: Kashrus Alert:

PINEAPPLE (Costa-Rica) was found to be infested with mealy bugs 

beyond the brown parts! 

Therefore at this time Pineapple should not be used including canned pineapple.

                                 Older alert on pineapple

Kashrus Alert: There was a non-reliable alert by the 5 towns Vaad , Kehila and AKO re: Red Cabbage infestation

Kashrus Alert: There was a non-reliable alert by the 5 towns Vaad and Kehila and AKO re: red cabbage infestation.

The 5 Town Vaad's Kashrus bulletin stated Red cabbage should not be used till the end of August due to infestation.

The red-cabbage is currently infested with thrips, and it's the end of November.

The thrips don't read English, perhaps the 5 Town Vaad can write it in Hebrew, Jewish, Chinese or they can get educated themselves in the the basic facts of infestation. 
Talk is cheap, one must get trained and know the facts.  

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