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Manufacturer's Code for Chometz Products

To the Editor:

For those who are careful not to purchase chometz sold during Pesach:

The code in Israel for food manufactured after Pesach 5765 is 5121. The first digit indicates the year (5 for 2005) and the last three digits indicate the number of days since the first day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar (in this case, 121 days since the beginning of 2005).

(Part I of the recently-published expanded edition of Bedikas Hamozone Kehalochoh contains a perpetual calendar to facilitate calculating the manufacturing code.)

Products made at certain factories sometimes show another digit or two indicating the shift or the factory (e.g. 51212) and are of no significance in the present matter.

Noodles imported from Italy (e.g. the majority of Osem noodles) generally do not have a manufacturing code but rather a date of last purchase, which is exactly two years from the day of packaging.

Note: 1) Some products indicate only the date of packaging, whereas the date of production may be earlier. 2) Even at the end of the summer there can be products on the shelves manufactured before Pesach.

Respectfully,

HaRav Moshe Vaye

Author of Bedikas Hamozone Kehalochoh


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