<div dir="ltr"><div><div>R' Eli Turkel asked:<br>"On a slightly different matter it is generally assumed that a store can<br>sell its chametz as it is hefsed merubah. OTOH there are communities that<br>don't buy chametz that has been sold. Don't these contradict each other?<br>what good does it do the supermarket to seel its chametz if no one will but<br>it after Pesach?"<br><br></div>The fact is that it's actually not really possible not to buy chometz that was sold to a goy in Israel<i> </i>because none of the hechsherim (even the mehadrin one like Eidah Hacharedis, R'
Landau, R' Rubin) hold from this chumra. Therefore there is no supervision as to when things were baked amd what ingredients were used and the manufacturers/stores can simply print whatever they want and no one is checking that it is true. See for example <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X9_D8LFI5O8/UWEoF_JIlgI/AAAAAAAAAc4/XDKyPFsMN7Q/s1600/%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%94+%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%97%D7%A8+%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%97.jpg">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X9_D8LFI5O8/UWEoF_JIlgI/AAAAAAAAAc4/XDKyPFsMN7Q/s1600/%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%94+%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%97%D7%A8+%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%97.jpg</a><br><br>Some
people rely on checking product codes which tells them when the product
was made. However,
this is not that useful. All it says is that the product was made after
Pesach. However, every Chometz product has chometz ingredients in it (at
least flour which is most probably chometz because it was washed) and
the consumer has no way of knowing when the chometz ingredients were
made and who owned over them over Pesach. For example even if you only buy cookies that were made after
Pesach you have no idea what flour was used. It is very
possible/probable that the flour used to make the cookies was chometz
and was sold for Pesach.
<br><br></div>Som people only eat things that were made with flour that was fround after Pesach. However there a problem with this as well. Flour in Israel is very low in gluten and therefore won't rise well
unless gluten is added. All bakeries add gluten to the flour in all
baked goods.<br><br>There is no gluten produced in Israel, it is all
imported mostly from Germany, France, and China. Gluten by definition is chamtez gamur . Because it needs to be imported gluten must be SOLD to a Goy
over Pessach; unless the bakeries want to close shop for a few weeks
waiting for a new shipment. Since they start making bread literally a
few hours after Pesach is over they must be using gluten that they sold
to a goy.<br><br>Therefore, even if the bread says baked after Pesach
from flour that was ground after Pesach, the gluten was most definitely
sold and therefore you are relying on the sale to a goy.<br><br>In other
words they are pulling the wool over your eyes. They say that it was
baked after Pesach from flour that was ground after Pesach but
conveniently leave out the bit about gluten that was sold. (source <a href="http://www.bhol.co.il/9196/%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%97%D7%A8-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%97.html">http://www.bhol.co.il/9196/%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%97%D7%A8-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%97.html</a>)<br><div><br>In short, this is a chumra that makes people feel frum but has no basis in halacha and is in fact not really possible to keep.<br></div></div>