Guest guest Posted June 7, 2001 Report Share Posted June 7, 2001 > >Dear . Your email was forwarded to us by the people at Lifestream >Natural Foods. We are the actual manufacturer of Lifestream Rice Cakes. We >produce them under license to Lifestream Natural Foods. > >In regards to your query regarding " cross contamination issues " please be >advised of the following: > >1) We use a continuous production process. This means that only one >variety or flavour is being made at any given time. Therefore the >possibility of cross contamination is virtually eliminated. > >2) In the manufacture of Lifestream rice cakes, only the following grains >and seeds are used: sesame seeds, buckwheat and millet. To our knowledge, >these seeds and grains are all gluten free. If you have information to the >contrary, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. We have discontinued >the use of barley in our non-organic Multigrain Rice Cakes. > >3) To further ensure that there are no cross contamination problems, our >production protocols call for either a complete shut down of all our >production machinery, and the vacuuming out and cleaning of hoppers and >machinery (as in the case when we switch from the production of a >non-organic rice cake to an organic rice cake) or to the use of " buffer >zones " where runs of rice cakes containing, for example, sesame seeds or >grains are separated by a run of " rice only " rice cakes. > >We fully understand and appreciate the issues involved with those on a >gluten free diet. To the best of our knowledge, the casein issue is not >relevant in our situation, but, once again, if you have information to the >contrary we would greatly appreciate hearing from you. > >I hope that the above has answered your query. Please feel free to contact >us directly at anytime regarding any further questions or concerns you may >have. > >Regards, > >Bob Takagaki >Van Rice Products Ltd. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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