<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Eli Turkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
after this article I am not sure I want to eat anything.<br>
What is the halacha of all these "tolaim"<br>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/opinion/13levy.html?em" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/opinion/13levy.html?em</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br>It's not for nothing that Chazal, and l'havdil the FDA, accept the notion of bittul. There is no danger (physical or spiritual) from those few parts per million of extra organic matter. The only halachic concern is because a berya is not battel. That idea is seemingly what's behind the humor in the closing sentence of the article.<br>
<br>KT,<br>Michael<br>