Whether complainants may eat meat from a shochet they accuse informally

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When individuals murmur that a shochet has produced treifos but refuse to testify formally before beis din, and themselves continue eating from his slaughter, their complaints amount to mere rumor. The Chasam Sofer rules leniently: without formal testimony, the shochet retains his presumption of fitness, and there is no obligation to act on such informal complaints.