Williamsburg, NY – The Satmer Matzo bakery defied a city Health Department order to halt production of the unleavened bread for Passover because it was using contaminated well water.
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The city bans the use of well water to make food. The bakery is near the Newtown Creek Superfund Site, long a dumping ground for toxic chemicals.
The bakery installed a filtration system, but the water still failed city tests, showing excessive nitrite levels, a spokesman said.
Department spokesman Sam Miller conceded the threat of toxic matzo to consumers is minimal.
Why can’t they use regular tap water like any normal commercial bakery would? Are the few pennies they save for each piece of matzoh worth the risk, however small? Maybe if a few of them came down with sever stomach problems they might learn to follow the health and safety rules that everyone else seems to be able to live with.
Amazing at $20+ a lb of matza they can’t evn use sanitary water. Wow
Thanks satmars for denying a city order and using toxic water to make our matzas. I am sure you get extra schar for eating that matza right? oh, deborah feldman was so wrong about your group right? you are so pious and law abiding and caring about people right?
well if you glow in the dark you know why
satmar should over a refund to anybody who does not want to eat toxic food
they should be as concerned about toxicity in the matzo like they are afraid of chumaz of bugs, but i guess profit was more important
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why would they themselves want to use this?
Sure hope the folk eating the matzoh didn’t all start turning blue…
(one of the more famous incidents in food epidemiology involved “eleven blue men” who turned that color, and were quite ill with a couple of deaths, after eating sodium nitrite contaminated food.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleven_Blue_Men )
Another case where dina d’malchusa is ignored by ‘chasidim’. This time, hundreds, if not thousands were put in jeopardy. Some wise guy will read the article and say that the threat of toxic matzos were minimal. When it comes to my life and the lives of my grandcildren, nothng is minimal.
This bakery was opened over 50 years ago. the well was drilled and tested by Leopold Lowy U”H about 50 years ago.
all the work was done under the supervision of Grand rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum Z”L.
millions of lbs. of Matzoh was baked and eaten from this well water. never had any health problem.
What about bugs in the well water?
# 1-8 your comments show your ignorance. No money is saved by using well water to the contrary it’s more expensive.
It’s obvious that you don’t eat hand shemura matzohs on peach.
To posters 1-8 (whom I have a feeling is the same person) just for your information, No matzah bakery uses tap water. Only well water which is drawn in the late afternoon can be used for Pesach mazah.
The city banned the use of this water after they’d finished baking for this year? LOL.
Foul well water is disqualified as “mayim sheLanu” certainly of it poses a health hazard.
To # 10 it is equally obvious you don’t know halacha.
Furthermore, what do the other bakeries use?
Isn’t well water called “mayim shelanu”?
If you read the headline you will note that it says: minimal risk for matzo. This is the same as all those other cancer causing chemicals (carcinogens) that are forbidden because – they can cause cancer in rats when ingested in much higher amounts than any person would consume in 10 lifetimes! It is NEGLIGABLE and thus fine for baking matzo with.
Well.I ate the satmere matzos .believe it or not .I’m still alive!!! & no there werent any labels notifying of this
Does anyone know the brand names of the Matza, so we can make a choice if we want to buy and or eat it?