I’m not sure why it’s taken that it was just a person chumra of his. I know many people who wait to buy “new” chometz. I personally look at every production date of chometzdig things, even now, to see when they were made. Some people are only machmir to check until Shavuos. Maybe that’s because of DY’s comment about rov being from after Pesach, but it is well known here that many companies might supply “new” chometz in the initial days/weeks after Pesach but then go back into their storage of products that are older but still within the permissible time frame and start selling them 3 or 4 months after Pesach. As far as the comment about ???? ???? ???? there is an even more stringent level which says ???? ???? ????? ???? ???? meaning that even the flour was freshly ground after Pesach. Many bakeries have a supply of flour to last for several days and the Badatz Eidah HaChareidis, which has many bakeries under its supervision, provides a number to call to hear when each bakery will start to provide products, even regular sliced bread, that is, at the very least, from dry flour and not from regular bleached flour, which by some opinions is considered chometz because it was wet at one time.
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