FOOD US FDA standards now allow gluten in food products labeled: gluten free

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Old Gray Mare

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If anyone you are prepping for has Celiac disease or a wheat intolerance please double check the food product. New US FDA standards now allow gluten in food products labeled: gluten free. They got a bunch of doctors together to decide what level of gluten could be included in foods without most people who have a gluten problem showing symptom. This was being discussed earlier in the Prep tread.

I posted this link which used to state the parts per million of gluten the FDA allowed in food labeled: Gluten Free. Surprisingly that page can no longer be found on the FDA web site. Think someone got embarrassed?
Don't believe me? Check it out:
http://www.fda.gov/food/resourcesfor.../ucm367654.Htm


The following link is active.
About.com
Celiac Disease & Gluten Sensitivity
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in August 2013 that it would define "gluten-free" as containing less than 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten.

Manufacturers will be legally allowed to label a food "gluten-free" even if that food contains an ingredient that's made from wheat, barley or rye (or a crossbreed from those grains) as long as it has been processed to remove the gluten down to below that 20ppm level.
http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/glutenfreefoodshoppin1/a/FDA-Gluten-Free-Food-Label-Rules.htm
 
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brokenwings

brokenwings

Veteran Member
That's our big brother! Always looking out for anybody but us! How sad that we are lied to about everything even our food. Want organic, too bad you will have to guess which is real. Same with gluten and nutrasweet.
 
Vtshooter

Vtshooter

Veteran Member
Now days, the only way to know for sure what you are eating, is to produce it yourself. It's a sorry state of affairs, but not really surprising, when you consider how everything else in this once great country is running.
 
Moggy

Moggy

Veteran Member
Thanks for the alert, OGM. The information has already been removed...page not found.
 
PCViking

PCViking

Lutefisk Survivor
Thanks for the 'heads-up'. It's funny how our government acts like a little kid. Do something wrong and if caught hide and deny. Obviously the people who run these departments were not spanked for wrongdoing when they were children.

On a slightly different note, but really in the same category is MSG. Where the FDA allowed MSG to be named "natural flavors' or 'natural flavoring'. That really solved the problem, eh?
 
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Dreamer

Veteran Member
"Funny" enough, the same day that the FDA standard came out, an article linking low levels of gluten consumption in celiac disease to increased risk of intestinal cancer was published. The low level was within European, and as of that day FDA, standards for "gluten-free."

Thanks so much "food advocates" for trying to get the .gov involved. I hate how these groups keep ignoring history and pushing for the government to help, even though every time that happens the result is detrimental to the original petitioners. It always helps Big ____. I have nothing against big business, assuming they get there with other skills rather than "Washington Ability" as described in Atlas Shrugged.
 
Hacker

Hacker

Computer Hacking Pirate
Dreamer said:
"Funny" enough, the same day that the FDA standard came out, an article linking low levels of gluten consumption in celiac disease to increased risk of intestinal cancer was published. The low level was within European, and as of that day FDA, standards for "gluten-free."

Thanks so much "food advocates" for trying to get the .gov involved. I hate how these groups keep ignoring history and pushing for the government to help, even though every time that happens the result is detrimental to the original petitioners. It always helps Big ____. I have nothing against big business, assuming they get there with other skills rather than "Washington Ability" as described in Atlas Shrugged.
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Hacker's rule #1: Everything - EVERYTHING - that government touches turns to crap. There are no exceptions.
 
SAR01

SAR01

Social ButterFly
if anyone copied it before they took it down can you post? I went to link to send to my girlfriend with severe celiac and gluten intolerence... and get 404 error page not found.,

this SUX
 
Hacker

Hacker

Computer Hacking Pirate
SAR01 said:
if anyone copied it before they took it down can you post? I went to link to send to my girlfriend with severe celiac and gluten intolerence... and get 404 error page not found.,

this SUX
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I suppose they might implement it and not tell anyone.
 
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