[ChemistMama]

I'm writing this to ask the Board folks to consider removing old, incorrect posts regarding ingredients for products. Whenever I search the Boards, I often get posts from 5 years ago which are totally out of date. I'm worried that the new celiacs searching the site may be incorrectly informed and end up glutening themselves. My suggestion would be to delete posts before 2006, when the new FDA allergen labelling law went into effect. Could this be done? I"m specifically referring to the Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications and the Gluten-Free Ingredients & Food Labeling Issues boards. Any thoughts?

[admin]

I understand your concern, but simply deleting all posts before a certain date is not the proper way to handle the situation--we'd be deleting tons of helpful and important information, along with a very small amount of outdated (and possibly inaccurate info) if we did that. I believe it is fairly well understood that you can't take everything you read on a message board as 100% accurate, and that information also gets outdated. The dates for all posts are on each post, so hopefully our members understand that if they are reading a post that is 3 years old about the ingredients of a product the information may be outdated.

I believe the best way to handle this situation is for our members to let us know if there is any inaccurate or misleading information by using the "Report" button on the particular post. Simply report any incorrect information and well take care of it.

Take care,
Scott

[ChemistMama]

admin, on Mar 16 2009, 03:41 PM, said:

I believe the best way to handle this situation is for our members to let us know if there is any inaccurate or misleading information by using the "Report" button on the particular post. Simply report any incorrect information and well take care of it.

Thanks, Scott, I didn't know about that one! As I'm scanning things, I"ll try to 'report' inaccurate items as i see them.

Another idea I"d mentioned a looong time ago would be a way to sort search results by date; that way you can choose the most recent/current information when you do a search.

I"d like to thank you very much for this site and this board!! It's been a lifesaver in many ways.

Christine

[happygirl]

ChemistMama, on Mar 20 2009, 02:48 PM, said:

Another idea I"d mentioned a looong time ago would be a way to sort search results by date; that way you can choose the most recent/current information when you do a search.

If you click on Search (on the celiac.com 'toolbar' so to speak....in between 'members' and 'help'), then 'more search options', you can select "older or newer".

http://www.celiac.co....php?act=Search

Hope this helps.