tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post5129420345851399211..comments2023-09-11T17:58:13.764-04:00Comments on The Rebbetzin's Husband: Alert: Food Fraud and Kashrut - Pork in your milk?The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-81182841630706006632013-01-27T13:37:48.208-05:002013-01-27T13:37:48.208-05:00Quite aware, unfortunately, Garnel. You might chec...Quite aware, unfortunately, Garnel. You might check out the posts under the label <a href="http://rechovot.blogspot.ca/search/label/Life%20in%20the%20Rabbinate%3A%20Kashrut" rel="nofollow">"Life in the Rabbinate: Kashrut"...</a>The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-86863744040712789892013-01-27T01:47:52.183-05:002013-01-27T01:47:52.183-05:00Not to burst any bubbles but this is not new.
On t...Not to burst any bubbles but this is not new.<br />On three different occasions I've been told by non-Jews (without ever asking them, by the way) about their time working in some area of food production and how "the rabbi" would come arond to bless the food so it would be kosher. Two of them wondered how we could trust anything to be kosher since when the rabbi wasn't around there was no quality control. The third person told me how she and her friends would bring bacon bits (NOT the mock veggie kind) and throw it into the food when the rabbi wasn't around, just to show him!<br />Bottom line: the best kashrus is with fresh, simple products and prepared in your own kitchen.Mighty Garnel Ironhearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09571194550300367249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-57607431640416314882013-01-25T07:34:15.026-05:002013-01-25T07:34:15.026-05:00Shalom -
It's YD 114:18, and he was countering...Shalom -<br />It's YD 114:18, and he was countering those who said there was lard mixed in, עיין שם.The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-3398790261165840902013-01-25T06:50:32.285-05:002013-01-25T06:50:32.285-05:00Isn't there the Aruch Hashulchan about concern...Isn't there the Aruch Hashulchan about concerns the olive oil was adulterated, where he said the local chemists determined "it's not 100% olive, but it is 100% plant-based", which was good enough kashrus-wise?Shalom Rosenfeldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-22105373023822842262013-01-24T10:03:17.595-05:002013-01-24T10:03:17.595-05:00Though honestly ... if there really was corn syrup...Though honestly ... if there really was corn syrup in your honey, I would *hope* it would be batel b'rov on Pesach ... okay ask me how far we go lechat'chila ... everyone agrees the best case is just not to have סבאך מהול במים, kosher issues or not.Shalom Rosenfeldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-62690053383277003692013-01-24T09:38:08.014-05:002013-01-24T09:38:08.014-05:00Daniel-
I understand that there are adulteration i...Daniel-<br />I understand that there are adulteration issues in Europe, but don't have any particular sites to point to on it.<br /><br />Josh, Russell-<br />Thanks for your research; I appreciate it, and have updated my post accordingly. I was fooled by the fact that it was the USP, and that they include both academic research and field reports.The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-44004947225188406442013-01-24T09:31:59.669-05:002013-01-24T09:31:59.669-05:00I was going to make the same points as Josh Waxman...I was going to make the same points as Josh Waxman. Additionally, the second link is also scholarly. <br /><br />http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814611013392<br /><br />It was done by a group in Brazil, and all adulterations were done in the lab. Police, in a separate incident, seized adulterated milk. But that was in Brazil, not the States.Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452758052108522468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-35003866226173440232013-01-24T09:19:22.176-05:002013-01-24T09:19:22.176-05:00the first link is to a scholarly article, publishe...the first link is to a scholarly article, published in the International Dairy Journal, by a group working in the Netherlands.<br /><br />http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/lang/433620<br /><br />If so, this is not (necessarily) evidence of "diluting cow milk with pig milk in the United States". Also, from the summary, it seems like they deliberately did the adulteration in order to detect it. (Thus, scholarly.)<br /><br />What, besides that the web site is the USP Food Fraud Database, makes you believe that all these are occurrences within the US?<br /><br />kol tuv,<br />joshjoshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-21092443529545870202013-01-24T08:59:59.491-05:002013-01-24T08:59:59.491-05:00Wow, that is worrying - even aside from kashrut, t...Wow, that is worrying - even aside from kashrut, there may be allergy issues as well as the crime of fraud.<br /><br />I wonder if the situation is any different in Europe. I have no idea how food regulation compares, but generally ALL markets are more regulated here than the US, but regulation on paper does not in itself prevent fraud unless there is a strong regulatory regime of inspection and punishment.Daniel Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07087956908558706584noreply@blogger.com