Fda To Mandate

[GlutenFreeGuy]

As you may (or may not) know just because something says “Gluten-Free” doesn

[psawyer]

There has been some discussion about this.

Tiffany (tarnalberry) said it best here: Open Original Shared Link

As long as there is a rule, there will be a threshold based upon testing capability. A negative can not be proven; there is no test that accurate.

[blueeyedmanda]

I was all for the gluten free labeling and then I read something that made me open my eyes. It was on the Wegmans site and I am going to copy the link and paste it below. This is a letter they sent the FDA concerning the new gluten free labeling. It really made me think. What about you guys?

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I am one of their customers who is very grateful for the "G" on my products. I know a lot of people who live in other parts of the US and our friends who live outside of the US do not shop here but they are very good with celiac and have gotten awards from the Celiac foundation. I feel the letter really opened me to things that maybe I was unclear of about the new labeling. Well let me know what you think.

[psawyer]

Amanda, thank you for that link. Wegman's raise some very valid concerns.

I used to shop at Wegman's from time to time, when my family owned a vacation home in the finger lakes region of New York. I always liked their stores and customer-oriented attitude. I haven't been there in a couple of years, though.

Like the Canadian rules, this is not about defining gluten-free. It is about not allowing labels that say gluten-free on certain products that are inherently gluten-free and processed in a manner to ensure that they are so. In Canada, eggs (for example) may not be labelled as gluten-free. Go figure.

[blueeyedmanda]

Peter,

It really opened my eyes and it got me to thinking. I am not sure if you had been in there store when they had the gluten free labels on their products yet, but it is such a help. I currently travel to shop there, but in Sept our store is opening. I have always had great service when I went into that store, and I have been in a few different locations. I buy a lot of their brand now due to that labeling and I have not yet been disappointed by the quality or by getting sick.

They are good with CC too, one day a woman was giving samples of salad and the sample was for their new dressing. Well the salad had croutons already added into it. I passed and explained. She said to me, let me make you your own bowl without the croutons, picking them out is not safe. They have contaiminated the lettuce. I about fell over, someone actually understood.