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1mpassioned Newbie
1mpassioned
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I have been doing a lot of research and trial/error on finding the right products and food. It’s been 1 year since my diagnosis and it hasn’t been easy but definitely found my way. 

Anyway...the main reason I’m making this post is because I need to find a way to make companies aware of making gluten free products. I see too many of them are using shared equipment and it’s frustating!!!!! 

Thats like....giving something that is peanut free to a child but made in a facility where peanuts are all over the place. Why would they emphasize gluten free when it is not. I really wanna push companies to providing a separate room or building to manufacture their products. If they have the money, why not spend it knowing consumers such as myself would purchase it especially if it is gluten free?! 

Any ideas? 

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Do not buy from them? Buy the products and have them tested by a lab, then if positive file lawsuit? File complaints.

Not really much we can do, I trust a few things from companies like Beanitos says same facility but tested negative and I have never known a celiac who get sick from them. I have used a collagen powder same thing where it says facility and shared equipment, tested it, negative, and never gotten sick.
On the other hand I have bought coconut flakes, shared equipment that said gluten free on the front from Thrive Market. I got sick from it....tested positive on a nima...and I just threw it out...it had the warning that it was made on shared equipment...which acts as a legal disclaimer for them so not much I could do.
I have even gotten certified gluten free hemp protein.....and 8 out of 10 canisters over the past year or so have been contaminated and made me sick and tested positive...even lab tested by a 3rd party. The companies I complained to just said it happens with the crop and their is nothing the could do about. One even after demanding lot and date codes just started stone walling me after I gave them the info......I think they found contamination and just went dark.

If only I had my dream of island nation gluten and grain free where everything is screened and tested before being allowed on lol.
Anyway that is just the way this disease is and living with it, find the brand your trust and stick to them....and yeah there are some stupid things like birdseye etc. frozen veggies now using the same equipment for the gluten sauced veggies as the plain and just hosing them down.....why I stopped buying from them. But you even have slight chances with shelf produce at the grocery stores if across from a open air bakery -_-.

Gluten Free Watch Dog often follows up with companies for false gluten free claims and is doing multiple petetions with the FDA for stricter practices and gluten free labeling. I am a proud subscriber to her cause and find her reports great, I have sent in a few things myself over the years.

 

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