Reply To: Milk and Eggs on Pesach

Davr katan wrote: “Bitul issur lichatchila, not shishim, davar hamaamad, nosein taam. need I go on. people don’t buy things to be mivatel them on purpose, it’s a chumra.”

Perhaps yogurt was a bad example for this question because of davar hamamad. I can’t think of a good example off-hand but any item where you can tell based on common sense and ingredients that there is no chametz more than shishim. Basically if you have something that has no chometz in it but is made in a plant that also makes chametz, the kashrus agencies won’t give it a pesach hashgacha. But limaysa, the only real chashash there is that a mashehu of chametz from another product will get in. Since nobody wants it there, it should not be an issue of being mivatel issur lichatchila. So why can’t you buy it before Pesach and rely on the bittul?

“people don’t buy things to be mivatel them on purpose, it’s a chumra.”

I guess that’s the answer I was looking for. There seems to be this inyan of being overly machmir when it comes to Pesach.