Isn’t a “Heter mechira” claim at this time for “fresh” produce like lettuce and tomatoes a bit suspicious in and of itself? I mean, we’re coming on a full year since the shemittah year ended, and my shemittah chart shows that starting back in Cheshvan the llettuce should have been “okay,” and I haven’t heard of these vegetable lasting even half so long. They MUST have been grown after shemittah, so why would they still be “Heter mechira”?

Could it be that the kashruth falsifiers are so dumb they don’t even know what Heter mechirah and shemittah are really all about, so they just throw in some more “religious mumbo-jumbo” to make their products SOUND kosher?