kosher certified "olive-oil-adulterated?"

http://foodintegritynow.org/2012/07/25/tom-mueller-extra-virginity-the-sublime-and-scandalous-world-of-olive-oil/

New chicken virus spreading Internationally

http://www.globalmeatnews.com/Industry-Markets/Australia-discovers-new-chicken-virus/?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2BDaily&c=P%2BxdiblPOxd3PevkaIxCuQ%3D%3D

The Brick!!!!

The Brick!!!!

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.

Cauliflower, Raisins, Blackberries, Grapes

Cauliflower? Out of luck.

Raisins? Make wine & filter.

Blackberries? Out of luck.

Grapes? Wash & rub well very carefully being careful not to push any of the insects into the grape stem area.

Infestation: Strawberries are worse than Romaine

Strawberries are worse than Romaine to check for infestation. Romaine lettuce can be checked if one is expert and has the required equipment. Strawberries are infested with thrips that hide under the seeds & it's impossible to see them till they come out.

Therefore fresh strawberries must be peeled completely.

All of the frozen strawberries with a hashgocha or Ishur must be cooked, pureed, etc prior to use.

Brocolli-What's the solutions?

Brocolli Solutions-

Buy fresh, remove all florets....For soup you don't have to peel, for other uses it's suggested to peel.

Buy the chopped or whole stems "100% floret free-only".

Sweet cherries infested

Sweet cherries were found to be infested even though there were no visible signs from the outside.

The Recipe "Treif" disclaimers

Most recipe books & published recipes in Hamodia, Yated, Shopper, The Voice etc are of the non-Torah opinion that when their recipes contain non-kosher ingredients e.g. fresh herbs, Vegies, strawberries, etc (which a consumer is not qualified at all to check-hence treif) -

-they write a disclaimer "Ask your local Rav re: checking & cleaning for infestation". You know that there are NO Rabonim that know how to check let alone clean...see Chasam sofer O/C 132.

It's actually a treif "EXCLAIMER ! ! !"

Even though all Rabonim know that the herbs, vegies, fruits in the recipe are ossur because of infestation that you can't clean ..,

USE IT ANYWAYS.

Celery is infested with leaf miners at this time

Celery is infested with leaf miners at this time. The leaf miners is found in the leaves which are normally discarded. They are also found in the green stalks. It looks like a wiggly translucent trail.

"Scales" are insects, common on citrus.

"Scales" are insects, common on citrus. Commercial Orange juices do sometimes contain "scales". Home, kiosk or store squezzed orange juice may also contain scales & must be filtered through a coffee filter.
NOTE: Pictures are for demonstration purposes only.

Blind leading the blind? (kashrus)

A prominent Kashrus Organization contracted out their food-service hashgochas to another smaller certifier, to monitor & set standards. The smaller certifier knows the "buzz" words, but not reliable in foodservice operations. The dollar is the guideline. 

A foodservice operator that has lost at least 3 hashgochas due to violations of kashrus is now being certified by this large certifier. A dollar is a dollar.

Garden State Parkway "rest stop" tickets.

Garden State Parkway "rest stop" areas have interior road STOP signs. Many are receving tickets for rolling stops, evan at 1:00 AM in the middle of the night.

House flies lay their eggs on "protein"

House flies lay their eggs on "protein", e.g. meat poultry tuna salad, etc. Always keep meat, poultry, tuna covered as the house fly may lay as many as 150 cream colored eggs at a time. They will do it in a flash.

Can one be acceptable as a mashgiach- if ?.........

Can one be acceptable as a mashgiach for a cholov yisroel production- if  the prospective mashgiach consumes cholv stam / akum etc?......... The major Gedoilei Haposkim concluded that the operated cows, e.g. LDA, Bloat, C-Section, etc make the cow a "treifa" therefore, when one is of the illusion that he's drinking cholv stam / akum, etc it's actually "treif".

A Mashgiach that consumes treif on a constant basis shouldn't be used for any kosher production.