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Some of the responses are worth contemplating.

Thank you for the heads up.  We have our celiac daughter's meds compounded
and never knew wheat could be involved.  Yikes!  I have talked to Solgar
about their capsules, but I better check on the brands of empty caps we
use to encapsulate things for her.  She is also soy allergic, so sometimes
I pour vitamins from gelatin caps into veggie caps.  We have used V-Cap
brand and Veggie Cap brand.  I better give them a call.
THANK YOU

Do you think that even if the bottle (vitamin supplement) says "no
gluten", but the capsule is vegetable or cellulose, the capsule itself
may have gluten? Is it possible that "no gluten" refers only to the
contents of the capsule, but not necessarily to the capsule itself?

How horrible!
Because some companies use both veggies caps and other
unknown, I generally pull my capsules apart over my
food dish and maybe use some stevia powder to improve
the taste.

I was told tablets were a safer choice.  (But compounding pharmacies only 
use capsules.)

NOW Foods Vegicaps are gluten-free says the manufacturer ...  (NOW is a 
store buying from various sources.)

Capsugel (Pfizer) brand Pearlcaps, Vcaps, OceanCaps (fish), and NPcaps are 
GF per their web site.

Roger Weiss, WA

----- Original Message ----- 
I just got a gluten crash from the capsule used to make a product at a
formulating drug store.  They used the vegetable capsule instead of the GF
methyl cellulose capsule because someone forgot to check the computer and
note that I am gluten intolerant.

I just did some quick research on the internet on empty caps to see what
they can be made from and which are gluten free.  They can be vegetable,
gelatin, methyl cellulose, fish gel, and perhaps other items.  Vegetable
caps seem to be the most suspect, but don't assume the others are GF.
Most sites do not say that their products are GF, but this includes a lot of
stores as opposed to manufacturers.  One manufacturer lists some that are
Kosher and GF.

Check to see what your capsules are made of and if they are GF.

Roger Weiss, WA

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