Allergen Alert by Food Safety News
Peter Rabbit's Easter Mix has been recalled. The label is inaccurate.
Picture coming soon
Monday, March 5, 2012
Jelly Belly Recall - CONTAINS WHEAT
Allergen Alert by Food Safety News
Peter Rabbit's Easter Mix has been recalled. The label is inaccurate.
Picture coming soon
Saturday, March 3, 2012
The Gracious Gourmet: Balsamic Four Onion Spread NOT GLUTEN FREE
The Gracious Gourmet: Balsamic Four Onion Spread
ingredients
onions (yellow onion, leeks, shallots, red onion) sugar, balsamic vinegar, raisin, less than 2% of: vegetables and concentrated vegetables (carrots, celery, onion, tomato), yeast extract, salt, maltodextrin, canola oil, natural flavor, barley malt extract, dried onion, dried potato, dried garlic, spices, modified foodstarch, orange peel. Vegan.Please note that this product contains barley and a product that contains barley does not meet the based the Food and Drug Administration's suggestion of gluten free which states that a product may not contain wheat, barley, rye or contaminated oats.
Food For Life Tortillas & Millet Bread
Independent laboratory tests scheduled by Gluten Free Watchdog, have shown that both Food For Life brown rice tortillas & Food For Life Millet bread have tested above the federally suggested safety zone of 20 parts per million (ppm), and far above the Celiac Sprue Associations suggested safety zone of non-detectable at 5ppm.
Food For Life: Brown Rice Tortillas
Food For Life: Millet Bread
Without a gluten free labeling law it is important that, we as a community, work together to maintain our health and safety while maintaining a gluten free diet.
When regulation is unavailable, it is up to consumers to band together. It is important that we, as gluten free consumers, think about where we spend our money and about what we are monetarily supporting.
Additionally, we can spend our money supporting new watchdog programs that are popping up throughout the United States as a way of keeping food manufacturers in check.
Be sure to show your support in any way possible. Your support matters!
Food For Life: Millet Bread
Without a gluten free labeling law it is important that, we as a community, work together to maintain our health and safety while maintaining a gluten free diet.
When regulation is unavailable, it is up to consumers to band together. It is important that we, as gluten free consumers, think about where we spend our money and about what we are monetarily supporting.
Additionally, we can spend our money supporting new watchdog programs that are popping up throughout the United States as a way of keeping food manufacturers in check.
Be sure to show your support in any way possible. Your support matters!
Support Gluten Free Watchdog and Help Us to Get More Products tested GF
There is a great article on Gluten Free versus Naturally Gluten Free grains, seeds and nuts and they're contamination levels. It is interesting that Millet Flour tested at 15.5 ppm with a gluten free label. This is higher than the Celiac Sprue Association's choice of non detectable at 5ppm, but still meets federal guidelines which request non dectable at 20ppm.
For naturally gluten free products (products not labelled gluten free, but not having any gluten containing ingredients):
the range of gluten ran from less than 5ppm to 2,925 ppm
Read more here:
GF Grains: Are They Really Gluten Free
Tricia Thompson is Involved in a monitoring project on both gluten free labeled products. You can join in your support for only $5 a month. The Gluten Free Specialty Market is a proud sponsor of Tricia Thompson's project!
Join Gluten Free Watchdog
For naturally gluten free products (products not labelled gluten free, but not having any gluten containing ingredients):
the range of gluten ran from less than 5ppm to 2,925 ppm
Read more here:
GF Grains: Are They Really Gluten Free
Tricia Thompson is Involved in a monitoring project on both gluten free labeled products. You can join in your support for only $5 a month. The Gluten Free Specialty Market is a proud sponsor of Tricia Thompson's project!
Join Gluten Free Watchdog
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Wolfgang Puck Soups - GF Labeling Info Update
Wolfgang Puck no longer guarantees that any of the soup products are gluten free unless the label states gluten free.
Read your product labels and double check for you health and safety.
Click Here For More Information:
Read your product labels and double check for you health and safety.
Click Here For More Information:
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Jelly Belly - Christmas Mix RECALL - Contains Wheat
Jelly Belly Candies produced in Canada were recalled because they contained undeclared wheat and milk.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Manitoba Harvest - No Longer Labelled Gluten Free
My Question:
Though I understand you use a dedicated facility that DOES NOT process any dairy, soy, nut or gluten products, I want to check to see if you know if the seeds are registering detectable with gluten. We are advocating for the safety of our customers both retail and wholesale. Thank you so much for your time!
Manitoba Harvest's Answer:
Thank you for contacting Manitoba Harvest and thinking of hemp foods! For over a decade Manitoba Harvest has strived to deliver the highest quality hemp food products to our valued customers and supporters. Every load of hemp seed that is delivered to our facility is tested for gluten. Gluten tests can fluctuate from lot-to-lot. In August we moved to a more accurate protocol for gluten testing. Our parts per million gluten tests are now +/- accuracy of 5 parts per million (versus our previous accuracy of +/- 10, which I believe is an industry standard).
Hemp seed is naturally gluten free. However, even one kernel of wheat or barley amongst 50,000 hemp seeds can potentially result in a positive test for gluten. As a vertically integrated (from field to consumer) company, this one kernel/seed could be inadvertently introduced at any point – during harvest, seed cleaning, or delivery to our facility. This potential concerns us greatly. As such do not claim that our products are gluten free. You will notice we have removed the gluten free statement on our labels and instead state: “This product is made at a hemp dedicated facility that does NOT process any dairy, soy, nut or gluten products.”
We are aggressively looking for processes and methodologies that would provide us with certainties on gluten free.
Date of Response: 1/4/11
Though I understand you use a dedicated facility that DOES NOT process any dairy, soy, nut or gluten products, I want to check to see if you know if the seeds are registering detectable with gluten. We are advocating for the safety of our customers both retail and wholesale. Thank you so much for your time!
Manitoba Harvest's Answer:
Thank you for contacting Manitoba Harvest and thinking of hemp foods! For over a decade Manitoba Harvest has strived to deliver the highest quality hemp food products to our valued customers and supporters. Every load of hemp seed that is delivered to our facility is tested for gluten. Gluten tests can fluctuate from lot-to-lot. In August we moved to a more accurate protocol for gluten testing. Our parts per million gluten tests are now +/- accuracy of 5 parts per million (versus our previous accuracy of +/- 10, which I believe is an industry standard).
Hemp seed is naturally gluten free. However, even one kernel of wheat or barley amongst 50,000 hemp seeds can potentially result in a positive test for gluten. As a vertically integrated (from field to consumer) company, this one kernel/seed could be inadvertently introduced at any point – during harvest, seed cleaning, or delivery to our facility. This potential concerns us greatly. As such do not claim that our products are gluten free. You will notice we have removed the gluten free statement on our labels and instead state: “This product is made at a hemp dedicated facility that does NOT process any dairy, soy, nut or gluten products.”
We are aggressively looking for processes and methodologies that would provide us with certainties on gluten free.
Date of Response: 1/4/11
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