Gluten Free Watchdog Updates

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Dear Gluten Free Watchdog community,
Two news notes…
Oats: Due in large part to data published in the public domain by Quaker, the gluten-free community continues to learn about the nature of gluten grain cross contact in oats, including that:

• Grains of wheat, barley, and rye are unevenly distributed within a given amount of oats.
• Despite what may be the best efforts of suppliers, gluten-containing grains have been found in both final product purity protocol oats and final product mechanically and optically sorted oats.
• See https://www.somatopublications.com/oat-consumption-by-celiac-disease-patients-outcomes-range-from-harmful-to-beneficial-depending-on-the-purity-of-the-oats.pdf

Based on Gluten Free Watchdog’s social media account, this information is causing concern among folks in the community. At Gluten Free Watchdog we are inviting various oat suppliers to provide information about how they are addressing the issue of errant gluten-containing grain in oats. Information will be posted as it is provided.
Quaker is up first. Please see the post at https://www.glutenfreewatchdog.org/news/oats-revisited-quaker-gluten-free-oats/ for more information.
Call to action: A post on the Gluten in Medicine Disclosure Act of 2019 was published this morning. Please see https://www.glutenfreewatchdog.org/news/call-to-action-gluten-in-medicine-disclosure-act-of-2019/

Please let me know if you have any questions.
As always, thank you for your support of Gluten Free Watchdog.

Kind regards,
Tricia Thompson, MS, RD
Founder, Gluten Free Watchdog, LLC