[Avodah] Etrog jam and pesticides

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:48:32PM +0100, Rt Chana Luntz wrote:
: And if not why is it valid for use in the arba minim?  I thought that
: everybody held that one of the criteria for use of an esrog was that it
: must have a heter achila (see Sukkah 35a) due to the requirement of
: l'chem (see eg Rashi there)?  And yet I have never heard of anybody
: enquiring into the pesticide status of an esrog to determine its
: kashrus.  Why not?

Heter achilah, not ra'ui la'achilah. Maybe this a case where it's not
true where chamira saqanta mei'isura?

But the problem is that jelly is made from the esrog including the peel.
The meat of the esrog is not poisoned. For that matter, I don't even
know if the peel is, or if the problem is that the poison is /on/ the
peel and pragmatically can't be removed.

Tir'u beTov!
-mi

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