FRISEE is an infested salad ingredient

FRISEE is often served in a mesculon salad. It's commonly infested, extremly unpractical to clean, therefore it should not be used at all.

It took the vaad of 5 towns months till they banned it.
The 5 Town Vaad's Administrator "forgot" to ban it for Kehila kashrus as well. He also was still working on writing up the nusach for the ban for all other AKO affiliated kashrus certifiers-That's expertise!

Anisakis in fish

ALERT: Israeli Pre-Checked vegetables

30 Av 5770- August 10, 2010

1. A Note About Meshech Cohen Mann Greens- I have recently noticed that some of the bags of the popular insect-free greens of the Meshech Cohen Mann Company are no longer orange,
but green. A closer look reveals that these bags are no longer under the watchful eye of Rabbi Moshe Vaye Shlita, and for me that makes a difference.

Halunen & Associates ESQ. investigating Extra Virgin Olive Oil Mislabeling Class Action Lawsuit

Halunen & Associates ESQ. Contact us for a Courtesy Consultation-MN (612) 605-4098 - IL (312) 222-0660- Extra Virgin Olive Oil Mislabeling Class Action Lawsuit Investigation-Adulterated olive oil is a Kashrus issue as well.

If you, like millions of other Americans, have spent extra money on Olive Oil that was labeled “Extra Virgin,” you may have paid extra money for a premium product you did not receive. A recent study by the University of California—Davis tested 19 different olive oils that were labeled “Extra Virgin” and concluded over two thirds of the tested oils failed the International Olive Council (IOC) standards. Olive Oil brands of which Halunen & Associates and partner law firms are currently investigating for fraudulent labeling include the following:

Swordfish, others mistakenly think it may be a kosher fish

Swordfish (Xiphias gladius) does not seem to have scales when one looks at a sample. Some say that it has scales that are embedded to such an extent that it is impossible to remove them without making a hole. Others say that it has kosher scales on parts of its body which fall off during its development. Still others claim that it may have some kosher scales even at the time of harvest. The Orthodox Union traditionally treats swordfish as non-kosher.

See Sh’ailos and Teshuvos Tzitz Eliezer 9:40 who discusses a statement made by the Knesses HaGedolah about “cherev hadag” and explains why we cannot use the statement to permit swordfish.

14. Why is swordfish not kosher?


The adult swordfish has no scales. Even the scales of a young swordfish are not true scales. A fish is only kosher if it has scales that can be removed from the skin. The scales of swordfish cannot be removed without destroying the skin. Therefore swordfish is not kosher.