[Avodah] Halachic Policy Guidelines of the Kashrus Authority of Australia

[Zev Sero]

On 13/12/2011 2:25 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> : No, I believe we are relying on bitul for a substance we know to be there,
> : but which is insignificant (ie overwhelmed by the heter)...
>
> The product isn't inspected, the ingredient isn't listed. So how do we know
> it's there? I thought the whole point of this line of reasoning is that we
> don't have to inspect, we don't have to know, since we also have bitul.

What do you mean by "the product isn't inspected"?  Items on the kosher
lists that we're discussing are certainly inspected.  The rabbonim know
what's in them.  The question is what they do when they know of a treife
ingredient that is batel.  And the psak is that since the goy is putting
the ingredient in for his own purposes, not in order to be mevatel an
issur for us, this is not called bittul issur lechatchila, and we may
buy and eat the mixture.

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