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Hi Listserv members:
 
Since I love to bake, and recently conducted a gluten free baking demonstration, I decided to contact Ghirardelli Chocolates to make certain that all my chocolate ingredients were gluten free -- even though I'd been using their chocolates for years without problem.  Though I was pleased to see that their 60% bittersweet chocolate chips were still gluten free, much to my surprise I received the following response.
 
Frankly, I plan on writing to Ghirardelli to protest their change to barley gluten.  I suspect it has to do with the increased cost of using corn and/or soy.
 

--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Consumer Response <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Consumer Response <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Ghirardelli Chocolate
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 12:09 PM

Rita,

Thank you for your email regarding Ghirardelli Chocolate.  The 60%
Bittersweet Chocolate Chips are manufactured on a line free of gluten.  

In June 2008, the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company  introduced new milk
chocolate bar witch has a barley gluten as an ingredient.  As a result,
the line which produces our chocolate bars and squares will no longer be
safe for consumers with gluten allergens.

Kind regards,

Shawna Ortez
Senior Consumer Affairs Coordinator
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
1111 - 139th Avenue
San Leandro, CA  94578




      

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