[Avodah] re Coca cola ingredients

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:11 PM, kennethgmiller at juno.com <
kennethgmiller at juno.com> wrote:

>
> I suspect that this is one of those things which cannot be answered Al
> Regel Achas. Rather, the answer requires a thorough study of Hilchos
> Taaruvos. Too many subjects are mixed together here. The ingredient was
> added deliberately, but by a non-Jew, so does it count as L'chatchila or
> B'diavad? And so on...
>
> Akiva Miller
>
> _
>

Here is a quick regel achas


   1. When a Nochri intentions puts in a non-kosher ingredient as part of
   the formula it's AIUI a real problem of bittul l"chatchila when it is an
   ongoing procedure etc.
   2. However, if a Nochri takes an existing  MIXTURE and intentionally Adds
   THAT, then - even if that mixture had a problematic ingredient -  it would
   NOT posea problem per se [unless the problem ingredient was really
   significant and noticeable.


Illustrations:


   1. Nochri intentionally adds butter for texture.  While the butter is
   otherwise battel, it must be treated as dariy [add if he uses lard instead,
   it is treif]
   2. Nochri adds a flavoring that contains many components, and one of them
   is grape flavor.  Since the nochri is NOT focused upon that individual
   componentbut upon the compound - that may indeed be boteil!

Summary:
AIUI I was issuing warnings about cases simliar to 1 and RAF was showing the
heterim in cases simlar to 2.
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