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A progress report on this  bread found with the following label:

>>"Genuine Bavarian Gluten-Free Whole Grain Bread"

>>-- Ingredients: whole rice, mountain spring water, whole corn, whole
>>soja, millet, sea-salt, guarseed meal (thickener), yeast

>>Made by:

>>Heinrich Leopoldt GmbH & Co. KG,
>>D-95163 Weissenstadt (Bavaria).

From the international contacts file from this list, I got the following
response from Mannheim:

>>I checked this bread and the producer in our gluten-free-food-list of the
"Deutsche Zöliakie-Gesellschaft e.V."....
If you buy gluten-free bread in Germany it is tested and all ingredients
have to be gluten-free and it has to be free of cross-contamination. ...

Sorry for a wrong information I gave you yesterday
I checked today by phone at our Deutsche Zoeliakie-Gesellschaft and just
now they phoned me, that _it is_ in the list. And they got an answer for
the next (1999) list. They are registered as PEMA and a bread mix - in
German "zum fertig Backen" is also gluten-free.

But, our association told me, it is
made with gluten-free ingredients in a normal bakery. So be aware of
contamination.
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Ulrike Oelhoff
Dipl.-Bibl.
Universitaetsbibliothek Mannheim
email: [log in to unmask]
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If you find the above contradictory, bear in mind that "gluten-free" in
Europe has a technical definition using the international CODEX
"regulations".

I also found two WEB pages. The domestic brand name is PEMA but the export
may be PEMA or the above Bavarian label. Neither page mentions the
gluten-free bread: http://www.pema.com is written in English and has an
800 number to find a local dealer. http://www.pema.de is in German and has
phone and fax numbers for the company. Seven well-illustrated links with
lots of information about their whole grain processing.

As for millet, that is considered gluten-free in Germany. For a discussion
of this in the US get the file ISSUES from this list: the second half
involves millet.

I'll  fax the company eventually with questions about the possibility of
contamination. I encourage anyone more familiar with  German "gluten-free"
or able to use German to contact them as well.
                                                      Kemp Randolph
                                                      Long Island
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