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I said:

>>Here are some questions that the celiac community in the US has been
>>remiss in getting answers to  in resolving these issues:

>>1. What are the relevant labelling, etc. regulations on the liquor
>>industry? Government agency BART.

and received the following:

From Bev in Milwaukee

>>... brandy.   Here is Wisconsin, that's a bar
staple & used in all kinds of mixed drinks in place of whiskey, etc.
 ... I called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms.
After explaining the problem, the person I talked w/ was very helpful.
According to the regulations, brandy should be made only from grapes, and
any  alcohol from other sources would need to be labeled. (To be safe, you
should  still track down actual manufacturers.)  ATF has strict regulation
and does  testing of products. You can find all the regs on-line at:
http://www.atf.treas.gov  Use Search, enter: 27CFR  (Part 5 defines
various  spirits; Part 19 covers plant operations.  Additional parts cover
wine &  beer.)  ATF# is also in phone book. Nothing special, just pages &
pages of  typed text.  ...  Even includes stuff like
what is allowable as clarifying agents in wine (milk in white wine) and
gives  allowable proportions...   <<

IF you go to the above BATF (not BART) web site, there's a link, named
something like"products" or "literature",  one link away from a very
useful alcohol one. That gives a fully linked index of the various
sections of that Title 27 of the Federal Code of Regulations (FCR) on
alcohol Bev refers to.  (Those who've looked at the FCR before know that
Title 21 is the one with  FDA food labeling regulations.)

and this from Diane in WA:

>>I have a letter from the head chemist for Johnnie Walker Scotch that
states emphatically (bolded and underlined) that "There is no gluten in
Scotch Whiskey." <<

>>2.  On the food alcohol side, such as used in many flavors, does a
>>flavor manufacturer buy a food alcohol ( with its own set of government
>>regulations, BART, not FDA) to use with the flavor or does he brew his
>>own?

According to a definitions section in this part of the FCR, some food
flavors made with alcohol, "flavorings" was the term so defined, are
actually made in the same BATF regulated plants making distilled spirits.
Given that food alcohol is not taxed, I suspect there are similar
regulations on them to prevent spirits going out the door untaxed.

                            Kemp Randolph
                            Long Island
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