How To Write To A Company.

[angel-jd1]

Here is the letter that I use when I write to companies to find out the gluten status of things. I thought it might help some of the newbies out there who are just beginning their research.

-Jessica

The letter comes from this site: Open Original Shared Link

Dear ,

I have celiac disease and am unable to eat foods with gluten in them. Gluten can be found in wheat, rye, barley and oats and their byproducts. Celiacs do not have problems with corn, rice, tapioca or potatoes. Can you list for me foods that you make which are gluten free? Things to look out for and consider are foods containing any kind of:

whole grain wheat, rye, barley or oats

regular flour (white, unbleached or whole wheat)

rye flour

oats or oat flour

malt

I also need to be concerned about ingredients which may have a variety of sources, like:

modified food starch (can your supply come from wheat, rye, barley or oats?)

natural flavors (if HVP is included it may come from toxic grains)

spices (which often use flour as an anti-caking agent without listing the flour)

vinegar (if its source is one of the forbidden grains, we prefer to avoid it)

alcohol (same as vinegar)

caramel coloring

Finally, another concern is the environment in which the food is manufactured and packaged. We need to know if a food is produced on the same line as any other item which contains any of the above problem foods, since even trace amounts of gluten damage a celiac's body, and cross-contamination would be an issue in this situation.

Thank you in advance for your careful research of these issues, and I look forward to hearing from you!!

Sincerely-

[ms-sillyak-screwed]

I found this post at the last page of this thread. I'm going to reread this cause it's a great idea.

I just found an alarming fact about Roche drug company.

The last few days I've been calling around to different drug companies to find gluten dairy soy corn free drugs. I was shocked when ROCHE told me they can NOT guarantee that their drugs [with dies in them] colored pills are not cross contaminated with gluten. She told me the companies they buy the dies from run the same lines that have gluten on them. She used words like strong prob·a·bil·i·ty!

So it really makes me wonder about quality control of things as simple as our pills. And yes, they are to clean the lines between products but we no longer live in the 'OLD AMERICA' before 2000 when life was different and the truth was told and people did their jobs with pride.

If your pills are colored and from Roche and you question your gluten intake, it might be where it's coming from.

I'd like to send this letter to some of the drug companies and find the truth. If anyone has a list of the big drug companies we can begin a list here.