Update from the Guide to Chodosh

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UPDATE FROM THE GUIDE TO CHODOSH



NEWS AS OF Oct 7 03



CORRECTION TO THE GUIDE



The following are corrections to the new Guide:



Natural Ovens breads are all Chodosh at this time, with the exception of 
the Best Burger Buns.



Quaker cereal entries on page 25 of the Guide has an error in the text and 
many errors in the Table. The text (#3) states that the Chodosh packing 
date for barley is Dec 15. It should have been Sept 15. The table of 
Chodosh dates for Quaker cereals has many mistakes and should be 
disregarded. Given here is the correct table:

***********Quaker/Mothers cereals table of package Chodosh dates ********

Days                Code-oats        Code-sp.wh     Code-barley     Code-malt

                         180                  Feb 17 04        Feb 11 
04        Mar 13 04        May 13 04

270                          May 17 04              May 11 
04              Jun 11 04                Oct  11 04

                                 300                          Jun 16 
04                Jun 10 04                Jul 11  04                Nov 10 04



                         360                  Aug 15 04        Aug  9 
04         Sept 9 04         Jan  9 05

                         540                  Mar 23 05        Feb  5 
05         Mar 8 05          Jul 8 05





Home Style Cookies. Apparently there are two companies marketing cookies by 
this name. The ones made in Israel under the hashgocho of Rav Landau of Bne 
Brak are Yoshon. The ones coming from Cornwall, NY are probably Chodosh at 
this time.



Manischewitz noodles and pasta code has changed. The probable Chodosh date 
is Sept 15, code 2585 (258=day of the year, 5=year+2).



There are several typographical errors in the Guide:



1)       Kemach flour: on page 20 of the new Guide, under Kemach the 
listing reads KemachError! Bookmark not defined.The text Error bookmark not 
definedshould not have been there. Please ignore it.

2)       For the indexes in the back, the first few items are not in the 
proper alphabetical order.





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NEWS AS OF SEPT 12 03



The first issue of the Guide to Chodosh has gone been mailed out. 
Meanwhile, we have prepared two versions of this Guide to be available by E 
mail, at no charge to your. One is a text only version that any E mail 
reader can read. The other is a PDF file that can only be read by the Adobe 
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This years Guide has the first major change of format in the 31 years of 
its publication. We have assigned one of 5 categories to each items listed 
in the Guide, indicated by the Hebrew letters aleph, beis, gimmel, daledand 
ches. These are measures of the reliability of the claim to Yoshon and the 
ease of finding the Yoshon item in the stores. These symbols work fine in 
the printed and PDF versions of the Guide. However, they are lost, replaced 
by ?in the text only version.



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