Comments on: Update on Campbell’s Vegetable Soup

By: Just Like Sugar – KOSHER ALERT « Jerusalem Kosher News

Just Like Sugar – KOSHER ALERT « Jerusalem Kosher News — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:56:24 +0000

[...] Hashem, we nabbed these guys but as we saw with the Campbell’s soup alert of last month, some importers are simply willing to slap a fraudulent Chief Rabbinate sticker on an [...]

By: Chaim

Chaim — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:41:30 +0000

Half Moon K merged with the OU in August 2008, which is why the alert is an OU alert.

According to my friend who was one of the mashgichim at Campbell’s, the last kosher run of soup was in Sept of 08. Anything produced after that was treif as the equipment REQUIRED kashering.

To touch on a few points above, I asked and was told that the cans COOK IN boiling WATER as well as steam.

If you have any questions about what to do, you should present the shayla to your rov along with all the facts.

By: Sruly

Sruly — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:21:48 +0000

The half moon K was acquired by the OU a few months ago.

By: mashgiach

mashgiach — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:59:27 +0000

half moon k is now owned by the ou. thats why the ou gve the alert

By: Yehoshua

Yehoshua — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:30:08 +0000

I have a question:

According to the loshon of R’ Belsky’s teshuva, the cans are SPRAYED with hot water. This would be irui, and as such the CANS would become treif but not the CONTENTS (SOUP).

Additionally, in many of these circumstances where cooking is done with hot water and steam (such as hospitals or cruise ships), chemical agents are added to the water to prevent rusting of the pipes. If this is the case (not an unlikely occurrence) , then the water is PAGUM and there is no problem either.

I believe it is a good idea for people to speak with their Rabbonim before throwing out their china bowls and kashering all of their pots; there is a lot more information needed.

Any chance for further clarifications of the metzius of this case?

Thanks!!

By: me

me — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:18:39 +0000

if i am not mistaken, the ou bought out the half moon k.
also the campbell’s vegetarian wgetable soup briefly wasv actually certified by ou. so it makes sense that r belsky would write teshuva.

By: Isaac Balbin

Isaac Balbin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:52:20 +0000

I’m not sure why R’ Belsky is commenting on the matter given that it wasn’t a ziyuf of OU.

What do the Half Moon K Rabonim say? Presumably they have/had a shaychus with Campbells?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:59:46 +0000

Yechiel, I enjoy your website very much. This post, however, I think is inexact and as such, people could get confused.

You say that there is a “genuine concern” that the soup “may have” been prepared with treif. This would not be good enough to take the extreme measures Rabbi Belsky prescribes.

However, the teshuva says that the soup IS cooked with treif. The concern is that taste has been transferred. There’s a big difference.