[Avodah] Girl Scout cookies

[Akiva Blum]

Daniel Israel <dmi1 at hushmail.com> wrote:
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David Riceman wrote:
> My wife recently brought home a few boxes of Girl Scout cookies.  
> They're labeled OU Dairy, but when you read the list of ingredients the 
> only dairy ingredient (whey) is third on the list headed by "contains 
> less than 2% of:".  Is one permitted to eat these cookies after eating 
> meat?  If not, why not?

First of all, AFAIK (as someone else mentioned), bitul only occurs when 
there is a davar issur involved. 
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Bitul occurs even hetter in hetter. Y.D. Ramo 96:6

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 Second, we don't do bitul 
intentionally.  For both of these reasons the cookie is dairy, and can't 
be eaten after meat.

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This isn't intentional. It was already botul when she received it.

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(I _think_ if this cookie fell into chicken soup it would count as less 
than 2% dairy, rather than all dairy, so it would be batel in about 1.2 
cookie volumes of soup, assuming that it instantly disintegrated and 
became an non-distinct part of the mixture.)
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Correct. Y.D. 94:6

Akiva