New Chodosh dates from the Guide to Chodosh

[Yoseph Herman]

*CHODOSH BULLETIN-24 JUL 12*

*From the Guide to Chodosh-Y. Herman*

*Chodosh telephone Hot Line 718-305-5133, email *yherman at earthlink.net



PROGRESS OF THE HARVEST OF THE CHODOSH CROPS-UPDATE



The US Department of Agriculture ( USDA) releases their weekly report on
crop progress on Monday of each week.  The following are the revised
Chodosh starting dates based on the latest USDA report of 24 Jul 12. The
date given below for oats is final, the wheat and barley dates may still be
revised as more data comes in.



In the list below, the “Packing date” indicates all packaged goods that
were packed before that date should be Yoshon. Starting with the “Packing
date” and later, they may be Chodosh. The “Purchase date” is the first date
for which we feel it may no longer be safe to purchase the foods without
checking  for dating codes. We also give the first recommended date to stop
purchasing freshly baked items produced at the local bakeries.



One can tell when the package was packed using the dating code printed on
the package. Dating codes are listed each year in the Guide to Chodosh for
a large number of products. However, we are not able to publish the Guide
until the mashgichim update their Yoshon hashgocho information for the new
season. This is the problem this year, as it has been the problem in all
previous years. Based on previous experience, that does not occur until a
few weeks after the vacation season is over at the end of August. Meanwhile
we will do our best to bridge the data gap as well as we can with updates
such as this to be sent out by email, recorded on the Hot Line, and mailed
by US mail to the list of paid subscribers. (See below how one can become a
paid subscriber to the printed reports. Reports sent by email are free of
charge.) Those who have last year’s Guide may try to recalculate the codes
given there for individual products to the current year and cutoff packing
date. A copy of last year’s last Guide is still available by sending email
to chodosh at sefer.com. If you do use that old Guide, remember that it has
not been updated. It should only be used for package code guidance.



LIST OF CHODOSH DATES:



. We expect the Chodosh grain to start appearing in products as follows:

·         *Oats* products *packed or produced* as of Jul 26 may contain
Chodosh. If *purchased* after Aug 9 package codes should be checked.
However a later date is applicable for the oats in cereals made by General
Mills, Quaker and Mail-O-Meal, as noted below.

·         *SPRING WHEAT: *Packaged foods that contain spring wheat may
contain Chodosh if *packed or produced* as of Aug 8. If *purchased* after
Aug 23 package codes should be checked. Items containing wheat, wheat germ
or wheat starch may be Chodosh after this date unless it is known that the
wheat is Yoshon. Examples of foods that are from winter wheat and are
Yoshon are matzos and gefilte fish (Note: Some gefilte fish may use ground
up bread crumbs instead of matzo meal. The only such brand we have found so
far A&B was using only Yoshon bread crumbs.).

·         *FRESHLY BAKED *bakery or store-produced items including breads,
chalahs, rolls, bagels, many cakes and cookies,  and pizza may be Chodosh
as of the *baking date* of Aug 8 in the mid-West USA and as of Aug 25 if
made elsewhere in the USA.

·         *NOODLES AND PASTA* may be Chodosh as of the *packing* date of
Aug 22. If *purchased *after Sept 7, package codes should be checked.

·         *BARLEY*: pearled barley or barley in cereals may be Chodosh as
of the *packing* date of Aug 15. If *purchased* after Sept 1, package codes
should be checked. Last year, Dependable, Eden, Gefen, and Mishpacha
barley was Yoshon the whole season. We expect this to continue.

·         *BARLEY MALT* (also listed in the ingredients as “malt”) may be
Chodosh as of the *packing* date of Dec 15. Package codes should be checked
after the *purchase* date of Jan 15 for *beer* and March 15 for malt in
other products.





YET ONE (LAST?) CORRECTION ON THE OATS SITUATION



I had stated on several occasions that according to the crop progress
reports issued by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), about 2 days
before pesach 55% of the oats crop was already planted. Therefore, if one
holds halachically that crops that took root 2 days before pesach are
Yoshon (3 days before the second day of pesach), then this year oats grown
in the US would be majority Yoshon. However, new data was brought to my
attention by Reb Arye Leib Schreiber that totally does away with the entire
question of  whether a crop has to be planted 3 days or two weeks before
the 2nd day of pesach to be Yoshon.  I originally published the estimate
based on the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) that indicated that this
year about 55%  of the oats crop was planted after the 3-day date. However,
Reb Arye Leib Schreiber sent me documentation that shows the early average
planting date of the USDA was skewed by the fact that it included the very
early planting dates of states such as Texas and California. It turns out
that most of the oats harvested in those states are used for animal feed
only. Oats used for human consumption come primarily from the upper
Mid-West states where the planting is later. Indeed, following the
suggestion of Reb Arye Leib Schreiber I took the animal-feeds out of the
calculations and came up the revised estimate. Namely *approximately 31% of
the oats were planted before the latest, 3-day before 2nd day of pesach *date.
Therefore, the final conclusions are that *all of the Chodosh USA spring
crops, oats, spring wheat and barley were certainly mostly Chodosh when
planted. *

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FOLLOWING AS OF 11 JUL 12



SPECIFIC BRANDS OF OATS CEREALS



The O-U had estimated that at least up to a packing date of Sept 15, all
oats in cereals made be General Mills, Quaker and Malt-O-Meal use Yoshon
oats. Note of caution, this only applies to the oats in these cereals.
Those cereals that have wheat products in the list of ingredients may be
Chodosh from the earlier wheat date given above.

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