<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I, too, have thought of myself as a canary and wonder when the world will catch on. Pesimistically- it propably won't thru natural selection operating in this man made world. Wondered why "things like butter should be ok because the paper is waxed", is there something about paper processing and packaging that contaminates with wheat? Wanted to comment about heavily spiced food reactions- you said "since spices don't contain wheat." It is my understanding that many spices do contain wheat - as a filler to stretch, as in cheapen-to help prevent caking etc. The point Is that eating out means someone's profit and most places will cut costs with foods that contain wheat. I don't touch chinese etc. since almost all soy sauses contain wheat. In early years of learning to avoid wheat I figured out that some coffee contains wheat ("Lenny's" gave me the runs). Even in health food stores curry powder usually contains wheat. Nothing goes in the mouth without reading labels, but somehow protecting receipe secrets allows labelling to just say "and spices" to our harm. This is my 1st post-so thankful to have this mail list- looked everywhere for support for 5 yrs and gave up. Now things are happening locally and on the net. This is a great chance for all of us to get together and change labelling. All we need is a few people to get things going and the rest of us can respond with letters etc. It's about to happen. :)