[Avodah] To DE or to D no E?

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Micha Berger wrote:
> The only people who wouldn't know that a D-labeled product
> isn't really DE are the same people who don't know what to
> look on the ingredient list. Anyone up the learning curve
> to know the halakhos of DE would hopefully be in a position
> to make the determination themselves.

I think what you are saying is that there are those among us who are knowledgable enough that they can say: "This label says OUD, but I can see that the ingredients do not include any whey or lactose or caseinate or any other milchig thing. Therefore, I know that I can eat it immediately after meat, and the OUD hechsher is merely for less-knowledgable people."

If that's what you mean, then here's my comment: The ingredients list has to be *very* explicit for this to work. The list could include natural or artificial flavors, and it could easily be milchig, yet slip past the chochom who is looking for more technical terms.

Akiva Miller

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