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This article was very informative.

Of special note -

"In fact,Tricia Thompson, a registered dietitian, published her results
of a research project looking at contamination of commercial oats, in
the November 4, 2004 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. She
found that in four different lot numbers from 3 different companies,
McCann's Steel Cut Irish Oats, Country Choice Old Fashioned Organic Oats
and Quaker Old Fashioned Oats, the gluten content
ranged from below 3 parts per million (ppm) to 1861 ppm. In North
America the generally accepted upper safe limit of gluten content for
people with CD is 20 ppm.Thompson concluded that while some packages of
these oats might be safe for people with CD to consume, an individual
could not rely on any of these manufacturers' oats being pure, and thus
the safest policy for people with CD is to avoid them."

 

You can access the entire article at

http://www.rocknh.net/blog/?p=29

 

Michael Thorn, RN

Suffolk County Celiacs

www.suffolkcountyceliacs.org


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