[Avodah] The Anisakis Worm Rears its Ugly Head Once More

[Micha Berger]

RGS posted on the subject
<http://torahmusings.com/2011/06/worm-infested-sardines>, quoting the
OU's Daf haKashrus. It's pretty long, might be the whole
article.

The "Daf Notes" sidebar on the OU publication reads:

    OU Mashgichim checking the gut cavities of sardines have, in
    the past few months, discovered what appears to be small, white,
    parasitic worms in and around the internal organs of some sardines
    (a separate issue from the krillin the stomach of some sardines from
    Canada). In the following Teshuva, Rav Belsky Shlita concludes that
    these are the same anisakis worms which Halachah permits as being
    dedanei dekhovara. These worms have migrated from the flesh of the
    fish to its gut. Rav Belsky's conclusion was scientifically borneout
    by scientists at New York City's Museum of Natural History utilizing
    thelatest technology of DNA bar-coding analysis using DNA Sequencing
    with Capillary Electrophoresis.

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-Micha

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