1.
the following images are making a sensation...
it seems to be a weird situation.. the product is under the mehadrin hechsher of Chug Chatam Sofer, as can be seen in the second picture.
In the first picture you can see the packaging states "contains: shrimp". On the importer label, there is no mention of it, along with it bearing a mehadrin hechsher (forget mehadrin - any hechsher at all is surprising).
you can see the same jar of curry paste sold on Tesco. It clearly states it has shrimp paste within
I would assume the import label with the hechsher is unauthorized.
2.
The Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem was caught serving meat and milk, according to Kikar this past Friday night.
A non-religious family asked the waiter, an Arab, to bring butter to the table, upon which was already meat dishes. The waiter promptly brought out a few pats of butter, and they used it to eat with their shnitzel.
Other guests at the hotel who saw what was going on approached the mashgiach and informed him of the incident. He immediately removed the butter and replaced it with pareve margarine. He also had the plates removed and disposed of, and brought out new plates.
As a guest said, it was shocking how easily this happened. Within moments the waiter brought dairy to the fleishige table.
It reminds me of a relative who works in Kashrut who was at a kashrut conference of a major organization. He bet the other rabbis at the table that he would get meat and dairy. He then slipped the waiter a bit of money and asked him to bring some milk for his coffee, while eating a meat meal. Moments later the waiter brought out the milk, and he showed his peers how easy it is to have problems in a public setting.
Back to our story... Rav Boorshtein, head of the mehadrin kashrut, said the waiter was a new employee who failed to discern between the butter and the margarine, and he was immediately fired.
My point - mistakes happen everywhere. Even under the watchful eye of the best kashrut organizations. We do our best, but in our systems, it is is still not perfect.
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