Every roach coach and greesy germ pit resturaunt orders one. Clearly it is the a mystery of the universe and tha shards of the ten levels of understanding that explains while they are always together.

Who profits from this bacteria & micro crustations gesheft? Did our forefathers, ChaZaL, examined with microscopes every drop of water & each bit of fish & cabbage? Poskim got to put limits on this & refer some to shrinks.

or next to nothing. The Rabbis have gone overboard in their "pill pulling" One of the oldest problems of this type was in ther use of remit for making cheese, kosher remit or a chemical substitte was found. I feel; that all this nit picking goes too far what about the rule of 1/60 should not this be applied to bacteria?

.... every kosher stamp puts money in their purses!!! Not to mention a new way to control their slaves.

Money can make it kosher. Biggest racket in Israel.

It would be greatly appreciated by all the people's of the world. They are getting slaughtered by some kind of foreign bacteria.....Virus.....or chemical agent. The sooner we find the non kosher element....the better.

These days food is more complicated than ever before (unfortunately) and the world of kosher supervision is really having to work much harder for its money. If you've ever read any other compendiums on kashrut and halacha, the knowledge of science, biology, agriculture and even horticulture that is displayed by many of these Rabbis is astoundingly impressive; very astute. For those of you who like to slam the kosher supervisory community as a bunch of hacks just kicking back and collecting their checks, calling it a "racket", think again and show some respect for the breadth of their knowledge, their devotion to their cause, and their seriousness about the consumers trust in their work.

"The sooner we find the non kosher element....the better. " What am I missing?

found a way to combat that syndrome, BCC- Bee Colony Collapse- and it is being used in US, Australia and other places ans proven effective and saving millions, the bees and greatly aiding agriculture. Google the Israeli research in this filed. However your comment has nothing to do with this article

why would kosher food supplies be dependent on indonesia? why is there no such supplier in israel?

Talk about stretching to the absurd. Perhaps kosher bacteria must have cloven hooves and scales and never brought near their mothers' milk. Now we can give thousands of yeshiva inhabitants useful employment searching for unlawful disgraceful bacteria in order to cleanse our souls. Satire becomes impossible in the world of kashrut. Next in line? Conversion? Another good moneymaker.

All the grand secular ignorant Dukes and Duchesses are posting nonsense as usual. YNET have them crawling out of their dark corners for this one. YNET had to print something like this in response to the survey that shows that the vast majority of Israelis will be having a traditional Seder and will avoid eating chametz on Pesach. With respect, I would ask the Rabbi in #2 to review the halachic discussion based on mesechet Avodah Zara on gevina and chalav and Rambam and Shulchan Aruch. In general it’s true that it is well established from halachah that anything that cannot be seen by the naked eye can be discounted as far as kashrus is concerned. This is actually an amazing thing considering these halachos were compiled long before the invention of the microscope. Had Chazal not stated this then as soon as the first microscope showed millions of creepy crawlies in a glass of water, it would have been forbidden to drink water and halacha would have been ridiculed. It's amazing to me how Chazal knew. However, based on the gemara, anything that would usually be considered “batel” – ie discounted as insignificant, ceases to be so if it has a lasting effect on the food product that can clearly be seen. This includes bacteria that although are too small to be of any kashrus sinificance in themselves, nevertheless does need kashus supervision because these microscopic bugs have a major effect on the food they are mixed with. There is a poison in the secular world called cynicism that causes blindness and deafness and the inability to see anything beautiful, truthful, pure and good.