<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Hi folks, I got a swift reply from Rachel Holtzman, RD, Nutritionist for Trader Joe's as her e-mail was sent to me from one of our listmates. Here is what she had to say: Dear Diana, Thank you for forwarding this letter to my attention. We are very concerned with having accurate information in our stores. I just found out about these mistakes today. I apologize for the inconvenience. We do make every effort to be accurate and provide as many gluten free items as possible. This list is done by hand and these were human errors. Also, it is always important to check labels - ingredients do change. In reply to one of the comments - we never had an email for customer service. There is nothing we are trying to hide. After I read your email I immediately sent a corrected version of the gluten free list to our website (this will take a few days to get posted), sent a new copy to the printer, asked our warehouse to dispose of all gluten free lists (there are a lot - they were just ordered!) and requested that the stores recycle all the incorrect lists. As I wrote before, we care about providing correct information to our customers. We know people count on these lists and expect them to be accurate. We apologize again for the inconvenience and will have the matter corrected ASAP. Thanks again for sharing this information with me and thanks for shopping with us. Please feel free to share this information with your group. Rachel Holtzman, RD Nutritionist for Trader Joe's -----Original Message----- From: Allen Brown [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 12:33 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Fw: Trader Joe's GF List Dear Rachel, I am forwarding a letter that I posted to the Celiac list serve. I was given you e-mail address by one of the list mates. As you can see, I am very disappointed in the new gluten free list, and am now afraid to eat some of the food I bought. I have been a happy camper since I found Trader Joe's until now. After spending anywhere from $250..00-350.00 per every 4 weeks or so, and traveling a distance to get there, at this point I'm not so sure that I can eat what I bought this past weekend, certainly not the imitation crab! I am passing the following information on because I think you should know that people's health are at stake. If there are blatantly gluten laden foods on the list, what foods could possibly have hidden gluten in them? Diana Brown North Kingstown, RI