approved:yoshon1
CORRECTION AS OF 25 MAR 04
The chometz report information on the Hain Celestial Group needs to be
updated: The Kof-K has informed us that Hain sells all their chometz
through the Kof-K. Furthermore, there are no shipments or sales of
chometz to or from Hain during pesach. This applies to the full line of
Hain products. This sale, of course, has no effect on Hain products that
were purchased and were transferred to other food marketing companies
before pesach.
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PREVIOUS NOTICE REPEATED
Each year we update and publish a report titled: "A Suvey of the US
Grocery Scene with Relevance to the Purchase of Chometz After
Pesach". This report is meant to provide background information to
Rabbonim who need to judge which chometz may be purchased after pesach.
It does not provide any practical guidance to the average consumer. In
that sense, it is completely different from the Guide to Chodosh which is
aimed primarily at the consumer.
Those who read this report will be left with more questions than answers,
since it highlights the complexity of today's grocery marketing scene.
Please do not address any questions of halachic nature on this matter to
us, but only to your posek.
This report is available in two forms:
1) A printed booklet with a thorough index in the back to help find the
corporate connections of various supermarkets and food producers. This is
available free of charge to Rabbonim and those in the kashrus field. For
all others, there is a charge of $1 per copy. To order this send me E
mail, or US mail to Yoseph Herman, 20 Sylvan Road, Monsey, NY 10952 and
indicate that you want the chometz report.
2) There is an unformatted copy of this report that is available by
instant return E mail. This is free of charge. To get this send a message
to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the message type
get Chometz.txt
(make sure you capitalize as shown.)
Again, I am not able to answer any halachic questions related to the
purchase of chometz after pesach. Those must be addressed to qualified
halachic authorities.
Yoseph Herman
