This is insane! Surely in the US companies have to prove their product is gluten-free before they can label it so. It makes me particularly angry because there seems to be this laissez faire attitude towards gluten contamination in the food industry, where celiac disease seems to be viewed as a few people with diarrhoea who complain too much, and therefore they are entitled to lie to us in a way they wouldn’t dare to if this was, for instance, a peanut allergy.
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This is insane! Surely in the US companies have to prove their product is gluten-free before they can label it so. It makes me particularly angry because there seems to be this laissez faire attitude towards gluten contamination in the food industry, where celiac disease seems to be viewed as a few people with diarrhoea who complain too much, and therefore they are entitled to lie to us in a way they wouldn’t dare to if this was, for instance, a peanut allergy.