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An interesting concept, but you would still need the co-operation of the
manufacturer to properly encode the package. We would be much better off
to have our governments pass legislation FORCING food manufacturers to
state simply "Contains gluten" or "contains no gluten". A posting of a
year or so ago indicated that a law was passed in the Israeli Knesset to
do exactly that.  Why can't we get the same thing elsewhere?
 
My two cents worth......
 
Jerry in Mississauga, ON, Canada
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On Mon, 2 Oct 1995 [log in to unmask] wrote:
 
>     I think there might be a use for a portable bar code reader in the celiac
> business. If we had a small reader that
>     we could take into a store and the bar code would tell us if the product
> had gluten in it or not, or MSG.  . I don't like taking the whole gluten free
> list to the store and having to look thru it for each item.
>       The memory would only have to be enough for the items that are gluten
> free, all others would simply say no buy not being in memory.