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Thank you to everyone who replied to my question about asian rice flours, packaged in the clear plastic one-pound bags with the red, green or blue writing on them.

The consensus is that they are gluten-free - everyone who replied said they had no problems with cross-contamination.

It is highly unlikely that wheat flour would be processed in Thailand as they do not grow wheat in that part of the world. Makes sense. However, someone suggested that she had done some research in that past that indicated the US was exporting wheat to thailand where it was ground into flour and shipped back to the US. This seemed unusual and (and a very poor environmental practive - think of all that fuel shipping boatloads of grain back and forth) so I did some more research and yes it is true. 

This seems to be a commmon practice with food manufacturers who are trying to save pennies - ship it to the east for processing and then ship it back to north america. For instance, Superstore (in Canada) sells a house brand honey - they take honey from argentina and ship it to austrailia, where they mix it with austrailian honey and then ship the finished product back to canada. Seems ridiculous when honey is produced all over canada ..... talk about a carbon footprint! 

Here is the website www.foodmarketexchange.com

You can search for thailand and wheat - there are three milling companies in bangkok thailand who grind wheat into flour. 

Janice.

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