<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> As someone already pointed out, the oats issue has been beaten to death around here. I love my oatmeal porridge, use large rolled oats from a couple of sources without a hint of reaction from my sensitive celiac system. I suggest that those who want to add oats to their diet try a small amount on a weekend. A previous post points out why no company is going to guarantee that their oats are 100% gf. It has a lot more to do with lawyers than with oats. Ask some farmers about oats. Oats are used to 'clean up' fields that have been growing weeds, etc. because they sprout very quickly and choke out other plants that sprout a bit later, like wheat. Oats are also used as a nurse crop for pastures because the oats grow quickly, choke out the weeds and can be cut before the grasses are very high. As to Canada's insistence that oats are not gf, we will work on that. Then I read: "The local bakery that makes our g.f. bread needs to experiment & adjust the basic recipe with each new palette of rice flour since variations in the humidity of the rice are enough to throw the recipes off. He said he can tell if wheat bread will turn out before it goes in the oven, but with g.f. bread, he can't tell after it's baked." I am alarmed and amazed that celiacs would purchase bread made in a bakery that also bakes with wheat flour. No, I don't think we can absorb gluten through our skin, but I also don't believe that a 'normal' bakery provides a safe environment for making gf bread. Talk about contamination !! Wow !! Flour in use gets into the air, it floats down on table tops, utensils, bowls, aprons, bakers, everything. Unless the bakers are as careful as the technicians in a chemistry lab, I would say that bread from that bakery may very easily not be gf. Our local bakery tried it. They made a lovely rice bread, I ate one loaf and was sick for over a week. So the question - Why is there so much said against oats, which in themselves are gf (mostly by those who have not tried them) and yet bread from an 'ordinary' bakery is apparently not questioned?? Bon aperitif Jessie