<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="left"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In a large batch of identical garments, is a sample check for shaatnez sufficient to permit the remaining garments to be worn without checking? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>&ldquo;The Shaatnez Newsletter&rdquo; (volume 1, Issue 2) bought out in 5765/2005 answered this question in the negative and brought an actual case from Cleveland to prove it. It happens that sometimes oddments of material are used for functions such as padding in a jacket and in just some of the clothing within the same batch these oddments may be made of linen. A few years ago I asked the same question in Jerusalem on a jacket which stated it had been sample tested for shaatnez and was told that it needed to be sent for testing.</span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A riddle &ndash; one can learn halachah from it: What is the connection between shaatnez and 15 tagin? On seven of the letters written in a Sefer Torah, there are three tagin on each of these letters. Five of these seven letters are the five letters of the word shaatnez.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>(Mishnah Berurah 36:12-13) Thus on the word shaatnez as written the Sefer Torah there are 15 tagin. </span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Here is an extract from a news item which appeared on the website of Arutz 7 on 26 November 2011: &ldquo;&hellip;the Jerusalem Rabbinate will be providing certificates of &lsquo;kashrut&rsquo; to clothing stores in [Jerusalem]&hellip;.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>When people buy a suit they have no idea where it comes from &hellip; Suits today come from China, Hong Kong and various parts of the world. But even if they come from a factory in Israel they should be monitored&hellip;. Importers frequently put <span style="text-decoration: underline;">stamps</span> on clothes that they are shatnez free despite the fact that no <span style="text-decoration: underline;">official</span> body endorses the claim. Checking the shops we found many such &lsquo;shatnez free&rsquo; garments containing shatnez&hellip;.&rdquo;</span></span></span></p>