Notice from specialfoods.com

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Have you seen this? This is scary. Now, I am wondering if a lot of the

other companies are okay, or if this person is just using scare tactics.

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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.

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 you have obtained products from another source and would like a way to

test for yourself, there is a simple test you can perform. Get the real

thing, grind it up and make your own. For example if you have purchased a

baked product from some company that is supposedly made from seeds (such

as amaranth, buckwheat or quinoa) or beans (such as garbanzo or lentil),

purchase the seeds or beans from your local health food store, grind them

up and bake with them! Most of the bogus products list only a flour,

water and salt, so take your flour, add a little water and salt and see

what you get! There is no magic baking process; you will not need any

special kneading technique. Add water as needed to get a consistency that

seems right for your bread, bagel, muffin, flat bread etc, and then bake

it until it is done. What you get will be what you are supposed to get.

Compare and taste your results with the baked products you purchased. For

example, is the color the same? Is the texture similar? Is the taste

similar? What you just baked will taste like what it was ground from,

does the other product? What is the color of what you just baked? Does it

have flecks? Does the product you purchased have the same amount of

flecks?

If you want to have your products laboratory tested, contact ELISA

Technologies, Inc. They have an AOAC approved test kit for wheat

gliadins. For around $150 they will analyze your product for wheat. The

phone number for ELISA Technologies is .

If you believe you have paid high prices for products claiming to contain

one non-wheat flour only, water, and sea salt for alleviation of you or

your child's allergies, and believe that you have been sent a cheap

substitute actually containing little, if any, of the flour you needed,

this information should be sent to the US Food and Drug Administration

(FDA). Please send a letter describing your situation, what the foods

were intended for, what you paid, what you believe you were sent instead,

and adverse effects on your health, if any. Ask the FDA to investigate

your complaint and take appropriate action. Send your letter directly to:

Mr. Deininger

Director, Investigations Branch

US Food and Drug Administration

3310 Live Oak Street

Dallas, TX 75204