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I just got off the phone with ECOVER, the company that makes the dish 
washing liquid that contains hydrolyzed wheat protein. They said that it 
does contain gluten, and the decision to use the product is up to the 
individual. Non-food products such as this are not included in FDA 
allergen reporting guidelines.

Responses to my list query included this useful information:

Hydrolyzed wheat protein is very much gluten. According to 
www.gnolls.org <http://www.gnolls.org>, hydrolyzed wheat protein is:
The protein we’ve extracted can be spray-dried into “textured vegetable 
protein”, which would require another article to explain…
…or the protein can be “hydrolyzed”. Hydrolysis is basically chemical 
digestion on an industrial scale: the protein is dropped into a vat of 
sulfuric acid, boiled for several hours to over a day in order to break 
down the proteins, after which lye is added to raise the pH back to neutral.

Other responses instructed me 'not to ingest'. Of course, this is the 
goal--I can understand not ingesting shampoo or other grooming 
products--but when one is washing cookware and utensils that will go 
into our mouths, with humans being the fallible creatures that they are, 
it is likely that not all of the stuff will be rinsed off. I am reminded 
of people on this list who have continued symptoms despite total 
elimination of gluten-containing food--please think about checking 
labels apart from food labels! I tell you I was so surprised to see 
wheat is a dish soap.

The product in question is ECOVER Lemon and Aloe. ECOVER says that this 
is the only product that contains gluten--all other formulations are 
gluten-free.

Chris in CA

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