RE: Notice from specialfoods.com

[Guest guest]

The purpose of this message is to say, sadly, that sometimes companies are

not what they seem. There is a bakery, fortunately not one regularly

mentioned on this site, that bakes loaves of wheat bread (also bagels and

muffins) and labels them sweet potato, lotus, yam, garbanzo, and any of

about 20 other different things. As you realize, this could be devastating

to some gluten-sensitive autistic children.

This is also criminal and illegal, and the bakery is under active

investigation by the FDA. On another site, there was a notice a few months

ago about a bakery in Canada that was shut down by the Canadian government

for selling loaves of wheat bread and claiming the loaves were wheat free.

We are letting you know that there is about to be a similar shutdown in the

US, and to be careful. Check your bread, muffins or bagels, does the label

say they contain only white sweet potato (or lotus, or cassava, or malanga,

yam, waterchestnut, etc, etc), and water, and yet look and taste like wheat?

Breads, muffins and bagels with these limited ingredients should look and

taste no more like wheat than corn flour and water (makes cornbread) can

taste like wheat bread.

We don't have to let people know about this, but we are parents of very

sensitive children too. We would want someone to care enough to warn us.

For reasons we can not fathom, some people are not thankful for this

warning. To those individuals we can only say, we regret this, but we feel

we have a greater obligation to the children.

If you are concerned or suspicious about products you have, don't use logic

or inuendo, go for the hard data. Have your baked products analyzed and the

laboratory results will tell you for sure whether your baked product

contains wheat. Thank goodness this is now relatively easy.

ELISA Technologies (we have no financial interest in this company) now has

two ways to analyze baked products for wheat. The easiest and cheapest is

the Gluten Rapid Test; you can send them a sample of your baked product, and

for a relatively nominal sum they will analyze it for wheat using the Gluten

Rapid Test. They will send you analytical results telling you whether your

baked product contains wheat. If you are spending large amounts of money

(hundreds of dollars or more), and the non-wheat products you buy look and

taste like wheat, it would be a good idea to have them analyzed. Their phone

number is .

Sincerely, Special Foods

-----Original Message-----

How did you get that message? I buy lots of premade baked goods. Is

that for real? What does it mean about the flours? Not selling its

flours to any other company- but other companys make their own. I am

confused (easy to do).

on Long Island New York

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