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A bit random but I must make the following retraction:

I wrote that I think that there would be no problem of bitul issur l’chatchila for a Jew to make strawberry jam out of infested strawberries, because one is not mechaven to be mevatel, but to make the jam.

My rav has told me that if they are certainly infested, it is assur. He holds that the only time they were matir to be mevatel by eino mechaven is when one’s kavannah is to separate the issur from the heter, such as the case of the ants in the honey in siman 84, and like the Yad Avraham says there. Since that is not the case here, in his words, “?? ????”.

So if any of you were relying on my opinion to start your strawberry/bug jam company, I apologize, but I retract it.