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Hello, Listmates.

Re: my originial posting of the letter from Mission Foods, about their corn tortillas, stating that they were gf, with no cross-contamination issues. 

One person requested the contact for the Mission chips-- it is at www.missionfoods.com

I received the following message from a fellow listmate and feel it worthy of passing on. While I don't necessarily believe every food factory can be painted with the same brush, I was reminded of personal experience years ago in my youth working in a large food factory, as well as my extreme gluten sensitivity. Each one can make his own call.

>>I worked in a "tortilla factory" years ago & I saw what goes on inside them. They hire illegals or Mexican nationals who barely speak English because they work for minimum wage (or less). The inside of those plants are almost always coated in a dusting of flour, it is everywhere, all over plant equipment, product lines, you name it, it is there.
 

I don't think it is possible to make a truly GF corn tortilla or tortilla chip after having worked in one of those plants & seeing what goes on in the food manufacture. I worked in that plant as a janitor & maintenance man btw. A lot of times I had to clean machines off before working on them & I saw layer upon layer of flour encrusted to machinery used on both lines: flour & corn product. Tortilla chips are made on these same lines under the same conditions. They get pressed out on these same lines & dropped in to a vat of hot oil that is exposed to the same flour conditions & often times had a flour product being run through it.

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