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           Sorry to have to relay the following message from the
Nature's Path Quality Assurance Manager about their "Guaranteed gf"
Honey'd Corn Flakes which says that that some of those boxes of corn
flakes may have been made using vanilla in grain based alcohol:

            It reads, "I finally got the alcohol information today.  It
seems our supplier uses grain and corn based alcohols interchangeably in
vanilla.  I am sorry if this is a problem for you.  Vicki"

            That's really bad news for our household because the cereal
was my wife's favorite!  Puffed Rice will have to take it's place on our
table.

            Members of the CELIAC List may want to e-mail the Nature's
Path company's Quality Assurance Manager, Vicki Brockamp, for any
follow-up.   E-mail  to  [log in to unmask]

            She did write that they are thinking of discontinuing the
vanilla in their corn flakes in a couple of months.  Though she hears
from celiacs almost daily, she never heard about anyone getting sick on
the cereal.  She claims that there is only 10% alcohol in the vanilla
extract which is then heated in the production.  Their current recipe
calls for 5 grams of vanilla in about 700,000 grams of corn flakes.

            Whether this tiny residue amount will trigger symptoms is
the question.  Perhaps.  Perhaps not.

            Thanks to Marilyn Deacon<[log in to unmask]> for originally
thinking of checking up on this ingredient.
                                    Al Rosenberg on Cape Cod