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[Lisa]

BEYOND RICE CAKES

Gluten-Free Food Labeling: The Whole World is Watching & Listening

By Vanessa Maltin

NFCA Director of Programming & Communications

Diagnosis of celiac disease is increasing at a rapid pace. According to new research presented at Digestive Disease Week 2008, there have been about 50,000 new celiac cases recorded in the United States in the four years since the NIH Consensus Conference on Celiac Disease.

Overall, 1 in 133 Americans

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Overall, 1 in 133 Americans

[Lisa]

You have a good nose Steve.

I thought it was a good, informative article and worth submitting. Let others read it before you eat it up bit by bit, please. We all know how you feel. Thank you.

[psawyer]

Steve, if you were to actually read the proposed regulation, you might notice that it differs in a significant way from the European one. The difference is the issue that you have been pounding at for as long as I have known you.

Under the proposal, carrots can be labeled gluten-free. You don't have to add gluten to claim gluten-free. Products which are naturally 100% gluten-free are not[/]b excluded by this proposal.

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You have a good nose Steve.

I thought it was a good, informative article and worth submitting. Let others read it before you eat it up bit by bit, please. We all know how you feel. Thank you.

It looks good, what is missing is a definition of 100% gluten-free ....

Frankly, they seem to be fence sitting... but that is a whole lot better than endorsing gluten-free != gluten-free ... but now would be the time for those concerned (us) to add weight that gluten-free should mean (as far as possible) gluten-free.

I don't think its bad, I just think there needs to be a VERY CLEAR statement on what gluten-free means.