UPDATE FROM THE GUIDE TO CHODOSH Important new information is being received almost daily now. The Guide can not be published until all required information has been received. We currently estimate that the Guide will be ready around mid September. Meanwhile we plan to disseminate information on a frequent basis via E mail and news recordings on the voice Hot Line (845-356-5743). If you find the frequent E mails annoying, you may unsubscribe from the E mail list, as described below.
News as of Aug 15 Freshly baked bakery products such as breads, chalehs, pizza that are not baked from special Yoshon flour are probably Chodosh starting Aug 20 in the Midwest (such as Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland) and Aug 30 or later in the other parts of the USA. The earliest Chodosh date found so far is for spring wheat bakery flour from Cargill with a code of M2242 (M=factory, 224 is the day of the year for Aug 12, 2=year). We estimate that packaged wheat products should be Yoshon at least up to the purchase date of Sept 5. Dates are not yet available for oats and barley. Current estimates are that both should be Yoshon at least up to the purchase dates of Sept 10. These dates are subject to change. General Mills cereals sold in Israel. If the box has the O-U hashgocho symbol printed on it, then the American dates and codes apply. News as of Aug 14 The harvest of the Chodosh crops is very much in progress, with about 1/3 of the new spring wheat, about ¼ of the barley and about ¾ of the oats already harvested. I expect that some bakeries in the Mid West may already be using Chodosh spring wheat flour. More specific information will (BE”H) be forthcoming in the next few weeks in a series of these E mail bulletins, as well as news messages recorded on the Chodosh Hot Line (845-356-5743). Regarding the three crops of interest, we expect that about 82% of the spring wheat will be Chodosh the upcoming season. Similarly, 94% of the durum spring wheat (used for noodles and other pasta), about 80% of the barley and about 73% of the American oats crop will be Chodosh. ________________________________________ To send an E mail message to the Guide, please address it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before you discontinue using an E-mail service, please unsubscribe from this list by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then if you wish to resume receiving these messages from your new service, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can request several reports by sending an E-mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then in the body of the message type the command: "get" (without the quotes) followed by the name of the file that you want. Type each request on a new line. Make sure that you copy the file name exactly as spelled including capital letters. These reports are now available: get Guidelines.txt This gets a long report on Guidelines to Mashgichim on Chodosh. This has not been updated in the last two years, but is still substantially valid. get News.txt This gives the latest news bulletin, such as this note. __________________________________________ Project Chodosh is an independent activity, not affiliated with any movement or organization. We thank the Jewish Internet Fund (JIF) for allowing us to use their E mail distribution services. The JIF provides free email and web hosting to Jewish education and outreach organizations.
