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We have a saying in our association, "If in doubt, leave it out."
While we miss oats in our morning porridge and in our baking until
further research is done we will leave it out of our diet.

Fran Gillespie wrote:

> I'm wondering what other listmates take on "oats" is. It is considered
> to be one of the so-called controversial grains for those w/ sprue. Many
> experts in the field are now saying oats, in and of themselves, are
> gluten free, but the problem was that due to harvesting methods, such as
> crop rotation, or using the same equipment and conveyor belts to harvest
> and move the grain causes the gluten contamination.

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Joan Tuckey, Edmonton, AB
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