Talmud for Makhshirin 6:3

כָּל הַבֵּיצִים בְּחֶזְקַת טָהֳרָה, חוּץ מִשֶּׁל מוֹכְרֵי מַשְׁקֶה. וְאִם הָיוּ מוֹכְרִין עִמָּהֶן פֵּרוֹת יְבֵשִׁים, טְהוֹרוֹת. כָּל הַדָּגִים בְּחֶזְקַת טֻמְאָה. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, חֲתִיכַת אִלְתִּית וְדָג הַמִּצְרִי הַבָּא בְקֻפָּה וְקוּלְיָס הָאִסְפָּנִין, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ בְחֶזְקַת טָהֳרָה. כָּל הַצִּיר בְּחֶזְקַת טֻמְאָה. וְעַל כֻּלָּם, עַם הָאָרֶץ נֶאֱמָן לוֹמַר טְהוֹרִים הֵן, חוּץ מִשֶּׁל דָּגָה, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהֵן מַפְקִידִין אוֹתָהּ אֵצֶל עַם הָאָרֶץ. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר בֶּן יַעֲקֹב אוֹמֵר, צִיר טָהוֹר שֶׁנָּפַל לְתוֹכוֹ מַיִם כָּל שֶׁהֵן, טָמֵא:

All eggs have the presumption of purity except for those of liquid merchants, but they [the eggs] are pure if they sold dry fruit with them. All fish have the presumption of impurity. Rabbi Yehudah says: A piece of Iltit [fish] and Egyptian fish that comes in a basket, and Spanish Kulyas [fish] have the presumption of purity. All brine has the presumption of impurity. And regarding all of them an Am Ha'aretz [one who is lax in observing tithes and purity laws] is believed to say they are pure, except for fish because they [fish] are entrusted to an Am Ha'aretz. Rabbi Eliezer ben Ya'akov says: [If] any trace amount of water fell into pure brine it [the latter] is impure.

Jerusalem Talmud Terumot

In the opinion of Rebbi Nathan, Rebbi Meїr, Rebbi Eliezer ben Jacob, and Rebbi Eliezer, all three said the same. Rebbi Meїr, for he says³⁸It seems that this refers to the anonymous Mishnah Miqwa’ot 7:2, presumed to be R. Meїr’s teaching, which states that if a miqweh is short one half seah of the required 40 seah of water (cf. Chapter 4, Note 112, Chapter 19, Note 139), if one half of a seah of fruit juice fell in, the status of the miqweh is not changed. If the character of fruit juice could be disregarded (being less than 1 in 60 of the total amount), then the watered down fruit juice could make up the difference., “fruit juice never is disregarded.” Rebbi Eliezer ben Jacob as we have stated³⁹Mishnah Makhširin 6:3. Usually, fish sauce is impure since fish, coming out of the water, is always prepared for impurity (Demay, Chapter 2, Note 141.) If it is known that the fish sauce was extracted from pure fish by people strictly keeping the laws of purity, then the fish sauce is pure and, since it is not one of the “seven fluids” (Note 26), cannot become impure. But if any amount of water is added, it is prepared for impurity.: “Pure fish sauce into which fell the smallest amount of water is impure.” And Rebbi Eliezer here.

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