If something truly has no lactose in it, does it follow that there are no
Whey Proteins in the product? I am allergic to Whey Proteins but not
Casein. I suspect that is not the usual state of affairs for dairy allergic
people.

Don

At 07:59 PM 10/19/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Dennis Andrews wrote:
>>Has anyone seen the Kraft Cheese packages that are labeled 0 grams
>of lactose per serving? Is this 0 due to rounding error or is this
>a new product?
>
>They're not a new product and I don't think it's an error. I think it's quite
>deliberate.
>
>Government regulations allows manufacturers to round to the nearest half
>gram. A serving of these Kraft cheeses is one ounce or 28 grams. Therefore
>they can have up to 0.5 grams of lactose legally. Say they have 0.4 gram.
>That's 1.4% lactose.
>
>Now for all I know these cheeses really do have 0% lactose. Most hard cheeses
>are quite low in lactose through natural aging. And 0.4 gram of lactose is a
>ridiculously tiny amount that won't affect any but the most extremely
>sensitive. But I don't know this, and I can't know this from the current
>labeling requirements.
>
>My guess is, however, that if they had no lactose they would say so. The
>bottom line is that we need lactose labeling on foods. Anything else is mere
>guesswork.
>
>Steve Carper
>Steve Carper's Lactose Intolerance Clearinghouse
>http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stevecarper