[Avodah] Halachic Policy Guidelines of the Kashrus Authority of Australia

[Zev Sero]

On 13/12/2011 4:23 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 04:13:11PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
>> >  But the principle they're using would apply even to an ingredient known
>> >  to be assur; the goy is being mevatel it for his own purposes, not for
>> >  our sake, and doesn't really care whether we accept it or not, so there's
>> >  no element of "lechatchila".

> They're relying on two princples in combination, two forms of bitul --
> rov unknown ingedients aren't a problem, and bitul betaaroves. Yes,
> either alone is sufficient, but lemaaseh they won't approve a product
> without the combination.

Not "rov unknown ingredients".  They do have a general idea of whether
*that particular ingredient* is likely to have a problem.  It's "most
olive oil is kosher", rather than "most ingredients are kosher".

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                 return to all the places that have been given to them.
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