Kinnikinnicks response, from the archives

[Guest guest]

>I cut and pasted the following warning from the site you listed.

What in the

>world does this mean? We all get our stuff from other sources that

Special

>Foods and they are guarenteed to be made from the products?! This

confused

>me.

>

>

>

>IMPORTANT NOTICE!

>This information could protect your health!

>

>

>Special Foods!TM is the only company in the US that is authorized to

sell

>baked products from the following:

>

>White sweet potato, Sweet potato, Cassava, Tapioca, Malanga, Yam,

Water

>chestnut, Lotus, Quinoa, Amaranth, Buckwheat, Potato, Garbanzo

beans, Pinto

>beans, Navy beans, Kidney beans, Black beans, Lentils, Arrowroot.

>

>We are also the ONLY source from which the flour to make these baked

>products can be obtained. We sell our flour to no other company.

I'm sure this is confusing to all the other companies in the US who

are

using these ingredients, especially the common ones like tapioca and

potato.

Authorized to sell?....by who? Now we're a Canadian company and I

don't

claim to know every regulation but I am not aware of any

restrictions,

regulations or anything else which regulates the use of these flours.

(and

can't imagine that there could be any...)

Maybe these folks are trying to Microsoft you...

This would be kind of humorous if it weren't for the " This

information

could protect your health! " ...marketing by scare tactics...I'd call

them on

this...ask them to provide some backup to these claims...(one more

reason

to take everything you read on the internet with a very large dose of

skepticism..

A few minutes later....

hmmmmmmm...now I'm even more disturbed...I just went to the

specialfoods

site and saw the following.

" If you have obtained baked products from the above list from another

source, BEWARE! The baked product does not contain what the

ingredients

list on the package. The Department of Agriculture has obtained and

analyzed samples of some bogus products and found them to be

virtually 100%

wheat. "

If I was a US gluten free manufacturer...I'd be calling a

lawyer...this is

at best misleading, and at worst...just an out and out mistruth...to

paint

all manufacturers with the same brush and make some vague reference

to a

government agency to make it sound more official is simply

irresponsible.

Oh and BTW, I AM pretty sure that the FDA (who is in fact the

regulator of

such things and NOT the DOA) has a developed system of rather large

fines

and recalls for companies who have undeclared ingredients...

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Kinnikinnick Foods Inc.

www.kinnikinnick.com

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