Olive Oil FRAUD

http://yudelsreport.blogspot.com/2009/12/olive-oil-fraud.html

kitchen fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyrbiU0sB4s

* KCL, does it again.

A KCL certified Lakewood caterer. His so called Mashgiach temidi (Temidi may be his last name) is the full time baker. He bakes and does other physical labor for 14 hours per day. One thing he doesn't do is be a full charge Mashgiach. The mashgiach doesn't check in any of the orders, and doesn't have any time to check on anything else in the kitchen.


The actual chef is a Conservative Yid. The chef turns on the fires, checks eggs when the goyim aren't available (the goyim get paid for every bloodspot- the conservative Jew doesn't get paid for blood spots). The chef checks vegetables for infestation.

They bake their parve cakes, challas, etc on real fleishig sheet pans, with a paper liner. Yes, the parve items do come in contact with the actual sheet pans. They bake the parve ingredient items in a parve oven- if it's still parve.

Bourekas filling has fleishig onions, cut with a fleishig knife, fried in fleishig utensils, yet the fleishig bourekas with parve dough are baked in the so called parve ovens.

Is anyone eating the fish with the fleishig challah (baked in a parve oven)? Is anyone drinking a dairy coffee with this caterer's cake when there is a dairy affair?

The caterer claims to be Yoshon, he's not certified by his kashrus certifier as Yoshon, nevertheless he claims to be yoshon, the caterer nor the Mashgiach baker know nothing about yoshon. When checking the facts on the ground, only some items happen to be yoshon but no one in the place knows anything about date codes, etc. The caterer was asked one time "can I see your flour sifter"? sure, and he brings out a lukshen strainer. I don't know which insect doesn't fit through the large strainer holes.

Why is the Goy cooking that item, when this is a bishul yisroel job? Oh! I forgot. Yes but you weren’t supposed to cook it today at all it was supposed to be only tomorrow as we agreed, I just happened to pop in. The one booking the affairs misleads people by claiming “we are always bishul-Yisroel for sfardim”.

He'll have a few bags on top with a better Hashgocha on the pre-checked vegetables, but the bottom bags are all without a reliable hashgocha. The caterer has all the keys, he can & will bring in and use anything he wants to. What are all of these small plastic containers in the frig, is it balsamic, wine or anything else? Ah-ah! Frying vegetables in a fleishig deep fryer, to be used on the fish course?

So there really are NO parve utensils, knives, mixing bowls, grinders etc that is parve.

He usually opens the kitchen at 10:00 AM, he lives 10 minutes from the kitchen, yet he only is seen at shul on his block only on Shabbos. ????

This is only for starters, but you get the drift of it. Remember, it's under the Hashgocha of a (respected) highly strung Organization.

Hashgocha fraud

********************************************************************************************************The Hashgocha was given for a nut company, then the oil company doctored it for their own.

*Weisner's KCL- YOSHON POLICY-"No one in Lakewood cares "

Lakewood: Rabbi Weisner's KCL- Yoshon policy clarification:

At this time the KCL does not certify any establishment or product as being Yoshon. This means that even packaged foods which have a Yoshon label and a KCL label are also not certified as Yoshon by the KCL.

One reason given by the KCL is that
none of the establishments to which they provide kashrus supervision has asked for Yoshon supervision.

(Note the comment under the Lakewood listing in Section 12.4 about

how surprising it is that in Lakewood of all places the Yoshon-observant consumers do not demand hashgocho for items that are stated to be Yoshon!

Extra Virgin Olive Oil-is only a label

POMACE OLIVE OIL IS MOST PROBABLY THE MOST RELIABLE FOR NOT BEING ADULTERATED, besides being the cheapest also.

By Reed Fujii-Record Staff Writer-December 06, 2009 12:00 AM

Establishing national quality standards and educating consumers about the advantages of top-quality, extra virgin olive oil will go a long way to ensure a growing market for California oil, said Joe Bozzano of Bozzano Olive Ranch in Stockton.

"We're still competing against the influx of imported oils from Europe that are being labeled the same as ours," he said. "The overwhelming majority of that European oil ... is adulterated and, quite frankly, isn't extra virgin olive oil but gets the extra virgin label slapped on it anyway.
"We need to get the playing field leveled," Bozzano said. "On the consumer level, we need the education out there so the consumer knows when they buy something that is labeled extra virgin, it really is extra virgin."

The center's efforts should also benefit California long-standing table olive industry.

Contact reporter Reed Fujii at (209) 546-8253 or rfujii@recordnet.com.

Shatnez

כנס חירום בנושא שעטנז ייערך בקרוב

כנס חירום שיעסוק בנושא התפשטות בעיית השעטנז ייערך בתקופה הקרובה, לאור ריבוי מקרי גילוי שעטנז אצל אנשים חרדים יראי ה' המקפידים על קלה כחמורה.
ירוחם שמואלביץ י"ז בכסלו התש"ע 02:29
חשיפה: כנס חירום שיעסוק בנושא התפשטות בעיית השעטנז ייערך בתקופה הקרובה, לאור ריבוי מקרי גילוי שעטנז אצל אנשים חרדים יראי ה' המקפידים על קלה כחמורה.

בכנס המיוחד אותו מארגנת הרבנות הראשית בהוראת הרב הראשי הגר"י מצגר שליט"א, יעסקו בהתפשטות הבעיה בארץ ובעולם וכן האפשרויות השונות להתמודד עם הבעיה ברמה הארצית, מתוך רצון להביא את דבר המכשלה וחומרתה לתודעת הציבור, על מנת שיוכל להתמודד עימה כיאות ובדרך מסודרת.

ללדעת.נט נודע כי הוראתו של הרב מצגר באה לאור מספר מקרים שאירעו בחודשים האחרונים בתוככי המגזר החרדי, כאשר אנשים לבשו שעטנז לאחר שחשבו כי קניית הבגד במקום חרדי, מהווה פטור מבדיקת שעטנז. כך למשל היה מקרה של אברך שתיקן את טליתו אצל חייט במרכז ירושלים, ורק כעבור מספר חודשים התברר כי בטלית הצמר השתמש החייט בטלאי מפשתן לתיקון הקרע. מקרה נוסף שאירע לאחרונה הוא של מכירת סוודרים של ילדים מתוצרת חוץ, ברחוב גאולה בירושלים וברחוב רבי עקיבא בבני ברק, כשהתברר כי הבד עשוי מצמר ואילו התפירות נעשו בחוט חיזוק של פשתן. מקרה חמור וקשה שהתגלה לפני מספר ימים, היה כאשר מעבדה ניידת הוזמנה לישיבה למתחזקים ברמת בית שמש ומצאה כי ל 30% - מהבחורים היה שעטנז בבגדיהם, ביניהם חליפות מתוצרת חוץ ממספר חברות ידועות וכן חליפה שנתפרה בארץ ע"י חייט.

בעקבות זאת הוחלט כאמור על קיומו של כנס חרום שיעסוק בנושא השעטנז, בו ינסו לעלות פתרונות, כשכבר כעת נערכים לקראת הקמת מערך מעבדתי שיוכל לתת מענה לכלל הפונים, תוך הקפדה על כך שאלו אשר יעסקו בתחום' יעברו הכשרה

מתאימה והסמכה על מנת להסדיר את הנושא מחד ולמנוע הקמת מעבדות פיקטיביות

ONE SHOULD ONLY USE A SHATNEZ LABORATORY THAT CERTIFIED BY THE INTERNATIONAL SHATNEZ TESTERS ORGANIZATION.

ניקור according to all accepted מנהגים

Many are very concerned about the current status of ניקור in the USA. May we acept in the broad sense, the מנהגי ניקור that was being utilized in certain specific areas of Europe as the standard for everyone in the USA? There are the מנהגי ארץ ישראל which was set up by Reb Yeshuah Leib among others.

מנהגי פוילען אשכנז, ספרד וכדומה were some of the accepted minhagim for the majority of those currently residing in the USA.

May one accept or even certify a nikur that is not all encompassing of all of the accepted minhugim? NO!

The מנהגי סאטמר, ציילעם, פעסט, אונגארן were not the same as all of the other countries. When Glatt started in the USA, the only ones that ate glatt were the ones from אונגארן. Now in the USA all of the ones that use glatt are from all the other countries that had different minhagim in nikkur.

There is no justification for the purveyors of glatt & their certifiers to accept a ניקור that does not encompass all of the מנהגים. It is interesting to note that the Satmar butcher stores (who are the only ones that perhaps could have accepted that nikur), yet they do not accept the ניקור אונגארן.

Therefore the parts that are may have an issue of Nikur chelev are;

short plate,

back ribs,

breast,

chopped meat,

skirt steak,

hangers,

Tenderline,

(ox-tail).

Rib eye steak

Rib roast large end

Back ribs

Rib eye

Cholent meat

The parts that don't have a chelev issue are;

chuck eye roast,

French roast

arm pot roast,

cross rib pot roast,

blade roast,

7-bone pot roast,

flanken style ribs,

short ribs,

boneless shouldr pot,

boneless top blade steak,

Brisket,

neck,

shoulder,

shank,

arm,

chop meat/cholent meat from these cuts.

The "Shimon Mendelowitz" nikkur encompasses all of the accepted Minhagim.

Rockland Kosher aka Shoppers Haven's nikur encompasses all the minhagim.

Can any the certifiers justify utilizing minugim in Nikkur that was not accepted in the Countries that all of the consumers originate from?