glutenfreedrugs.com

[JoeBlow]

For 16 years I have relied on the website glutenfreedrugs.com to determine if a pharmaceutical is gluten-free. The website has been down for at least a week. Does anyone have any information about this outage, the status of the website founder and maintainer pharmacist Steven A. Plogsted or a phone number? I did not get a response for my email to glutenfreedrugs@gmail.com in October of 2022. Steven did respond to my emails in 2012. Thanks.

[Scott Adams]

I would not rely on that site for info, as I don't believe it is regularly updated.

You can search this site for prescriptions medications, but will need to know the manufacturer/maker if there is more than one, especially if you use a generic version of the medication:

To see the ingredients you will need to click on the correct version of the medication and maker in the results, then scroll down to "Ingredients and Appearance" and click it, and then look at "Inactive Ingredients," as any gluten ingredients would likely appear there, rather than in the Active Ingredients area.

• https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/ 

 

[Serafina57]

I was able to contact Steven Plogsted. He indicated the web hosting company was now charging far more than he was able to sustain. I told him, that I would be grateful to pay a fee for his services. Like a subscription. I don't know that he's interested in doing that type of thing, but I'd sure use it.

I have never been steered wrong from his lists or responses from my emails. 

[Scott Adams]

Ok, but did you see the info I posted? The site I posted is a government web site that is free, and is far more accurate. 

[JoeBlow]

For celiacs like I and serafina, who have gluten ataxia and other neurological symptoms, mere listing of ingredients is not enough. Steven rated “gluten-free” with 5 different ratings, 1 indicating that the manufacturer does testing of the I product for gluten, 2 being no listed plant sources of gluten. Remember that ingredients can be contaminated, and my favorite example is that soy beans and wheat are rotated in the same fields, and volunteer wheat plants get harvested with the soy beans. 
We need to push again in educating our government representatives of our need for testing and labeling of drugs, especially in a time when they are manufacturing synthetic pathogens that target people with autoimmune vulnerability and mandating bioweapons  that have no labeling whatsoever. And I have been shown in the Comirnaty patent that it contains 2 mutated prolines.

[Scott Adams]

He did not keep his lists up to date at all...they were more or less unchanged for years, even though the companies who make these drugs will tell you that their ingredients may change at any time. I have nothing against his rating system, or the work he did in the past, but am simply pointing out that maintaining an accurate list of ingredients used in drugs, including all generic version of them, would require several full time employees--which I know that he did not have. 

I agree that drug makers should be required to disclose gluten, but until then, the site below is kept up to date and is currently the best way to check for gluten in drugs.

To see the ingredients you will need to click on the correct version of the medication and maker in the results, then scroll down to "Ingredients and Appearance" and click it, and then look at "Inactive Ingredients," as any gluten ingredients would likely appear there, rather than in the Active Ingredients area.

• https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/