[Avodah] Glycerine in mouth wash

[Prof. Levine]

At 09:12 AM 12/16/2009, martin brody wrote:
>Do you make a bracha? A bracha achrona too? Of course not.You do not 
>drink it as food and it is not why it was made and besides I'm 
>pretty certain a dog wouldn't drink it. But what I was trying to say 
>was the author of the comment from Kaf K is in the business of 
>selling supervision and did not mention that as medicine, glycerine 
>may not be a problem. That is intellectual dishonesty.
>And to add to the mix, even if glycerine is from an animal source, 
>it's composition has changed enough to be considered inedible, even 
>more so than gelatin. There's enough suffeiks around even when in an 
>edible product.

All I can say is that Rav Y. Belsky does not agree with you and says 
that one should not use mouthwash without supervision.  As I am sure 
you know, he is one of the OU's poskim when it comes to kashrus.

Perhaps you should contact him and discuss this with him.

For the record, both Scope and Listerine were on Rabbi G. Bess' 
kosher for Pesach list.

YL
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