[Avodah] OY, OY, OYSTER... TARFUS WARNING

[Micha Berger]

On Sat, February 24, 2007 8:22 am, SBA forwarded to Areivim:
:>>>>From: D & J Weil
:> To: kosher at yahoogroups.com Subject: {Disarmed} [Kosher] warning regarding
:> pearl and silver necklace
:> A product is being sold in Yerushalyim which is completely treif but not
:> marked as such. It is an oyster containing a pearl, together with a silver
:> necklace designed to hold the pearl, made by Art Judaica of Yavne. The
:> customer purchases this gift item and opens the oyster, which is preserved
:> in a plastic box containing sea water. If they use a kitchen knife to open
:> the box of water and then the oyster itself, to find the pearl, I believe
:> they run the risk of treifing their kitchen utensils and the surface on
:> which they are opening it. There is no warning on the box. I believe that
:> this product is also sold in the United States...

First, this is like (U)'s recent warning about their symbol appearing on a ham
product. The likelihood of error should be low. People know oysters are treif.

Second, oysters aren't sharp flavored, nor does the consumer have any
motivation to heat it above yad soledes. So what's the likelihood they would
treif up a kitchen knife, even if they unthinkingly used it?

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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