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<font size=3>Recently a document was posted about worms in fish that
claims that most fish contain worms, and therefore one should refrain
from eating many kinds of fish. See
<a href="http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/wp-content/uploads/mehadrinanisakis.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/wp-content/uploads/mehadrinanisakis.pdf</a>
Note that no one has signed his name to this document.
Indeed, I know nothing about Chevrah Mehadrin, Kashrus Advocacy of
Rockland. <br><br>
In addition, R. Yudel Shain has put a post at
http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2008/12/fish-infested-with-worms-in-flesh.html
under the heading
<a href="http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2008/12/fish-infested-with-worms-in-flesh.html">
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</a><br>
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<a href="http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2008/12/fish-infested-with-worms-in-flesh.html">
FISH INFESTED WITH WORMS IN THE FLESH-including canned
salmon</a></b></h3><font size=3>Given this, I contacted the OU to get
some information about this issue. I have learned the
following:<br><br>
Rav Yisroel Belsky has issued a psak for the OU, stating that there is no
need to check for worms and no prohibition of the worms found in wild
salmon and other fish, in accordance with Shulchan Aruch Y"D
84:16. According to this psak, he states that the Shulchan Aruch does not
limit the permissibility of Tolayim found in the flesh of fish to any
species of tolaas. The halacha states that the tolaas found in the flesh
of the fish is mutar, and there is no reason to believe present day
Tolayim are any different from those found in the past. <br><br>
There is an audio presentation made by Rav Belsky last year at
<a href="http://www.ouradio.org/index.php/ouradio/comment/9742/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ouradio.org/index.php/ouradio/comment/9742/</a> In it he
notes that the SA did not require one to be an expert in the Tolayim
found in the fish flesh to know how they got into the flesh, either from
the viscera [The internal organs of the body, specifically those within
the chest (as the
<a href="http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3668">
heart</a> or
<a href="http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4209">
lungs</a>) or
<a href="http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2081">
abdomen</a> (as the
<a href="http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4179">
liver</a>,
<a href="http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4743">
pancreas</a> or intestines).] or from some other source. If the tolaas
clearly came from the viscera after death, the tolaas would indeed
be forbidden.<br><br>
He also said that the concern that the Tolayim found in the flesh of fish
may have migrated from the viscera after the death of the fish and would
be forbidden is not based on any scientific research. Based on his own
inquiries of experts in the field, Rav Belsky feels that, in fact,
the opposite is true, and that the Tolayim in question are to be found in
the flesh of the fish while it was alive. Furthermore, Rav Belsky
said that the size of the tolaas when it is swallowed by the fish
is not relevant.<br>
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Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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