[Avodah] diet coke

[Zev Sero]

On 3/04/2011 3:42 PM, Akiva Blum wrote:
> [mailto:avodah-bounces at lists.aishdas.org] On Behalf Of Zev Sero
>> On 2/04/2011 5:11 PM, Akiva Blum wrote:

>>> Since a sweetener is made for taste, it is most certainly
>>> not batel in any quantity.

>> Why not?  Kitniyos is batel berov, not beshishim, so why should taam
>> be an issue?

> You're correct. Nevertheless, the Ramo was only mattir where the
> kitiyos fell in, but does not allow mixing the oil in. Therefore,
> the kashrus agencies, unless they hold that corn syrup is not kintiyos,
> could not allow deliberately adding sweetener for pesach.

This goes to the machlokes of the Rashba and the Noda Biyhuda about
how we treat bitul done by a goy.  But the bottom line is that they
can't give a hechsher.  I didn't think anyone was suggesting that they
should.  But that doesn't prevent them from investigating the facts,
and publishing their opinion on whether one can drink the stuff on
Pesach *without* a hechsher.  I.e. the way that kashrus works outside
the USA and EY, where products mostly don't have hechsherim but the
kashrus agencies publish lists of which products are kosher.  In such
a situation one can rely on a goy's bitul.


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