Israel – The Chief Rabbinate is establishing a laboratory in the center of the country to carry out kashrut testing for companies marketing leafy vegetables.
The move follows the discovery of worms and other things that rendered produce marked “mehadrin” (a strict level of kashrut) unkosher.
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The companies affected were Yevulei Hanegev and Alei Sharon. Rabbi Yosef Efrati, who certifies the kashrut for Alei Sharon removed his certification on Sunday.
From day one I know there is money to be made
I can’t wait to hear all the nay sayers and bashers or is it only with New York Chassidisa Heschers
If there were worms on a ‘mehadrim” product, I’d worry about what the rest of us are eating in plain lettuce that is not the vegetarian equivalent of “glatt”. While worms are not such a big deal, I’d still prefer to avoid them when possible.
What’s with celery? Are there bugs in there too? I heard something about that, I wonder if it’s true.
is this for frozen veg. too and are they going to inspect our products exported to them
There is an article in new scientist discussing why wines sometimes have a vegetable taste it was due to ladybugs being processed when the grapes are crushed
I don’t know why everyone is worrying over worms.
We were using Israeli lettuce with a hechsher for Pesach this year. What popped (perhaps more correctly, hopped) out wasn’t a teeny little worm but a brown, 4 inch, fully grown, live locust! I will admit, I do not know if it was a kosher variety though.
Due to the problems that could have been caused by any action taken by us, we decided not to do anything about it.
I suppose it was really more exciting than those plastic frogs everyone has during the makkos of the seder!
You will be interested to note that we did not use the lettuce from this particular package – and it wasn’t due to the ch’shash of worms.
Wash, Wash, and Wash all vegetables: inspect, inspect, and inspect. Even some of my gentile neighbors do that. We live in the natural world
First of all except on pesach no one eats plains lettuce.
When mixed in a dressing the issur become Derabonim and acc to the rashba is mutar 1 to 960 ( which is for sure sufficient for the amount of bugs in a salad)
The aruch hashulchan has a lenghy disccusion explaining and being moreh heter for the yidden in terms of bugs when his sefer hakodosh was written
kol hanotel aima yesera al a tzibbur eino roeh bannim talmidei chachamim