<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I hope everyone in the Chicago area caught the June 17, 2001, Tribune article on Celiac in the Sunday, Health and Family section. Entitled "Diagnosing celiac disease: An obscure sensitivity turns food into the enemy," It featured a Chicago area family with a three-year-old celiac daughter and a pediatric GI from Children's Hospital in Chicago. It was well-written, informative and (most importantly), accurate! The only conspicuous absence was any mention of oats. However, since it appears from reading the many posts on this list that the concern about oats is cross-contamination and not about actual gliaden in the oats themselves, perhaps it was not an omission. The GI's name is Stephen Guandalini, and he is out of the University of Chicago Children's Hospital. He comes from Italy, and (as we know) it is a much more common diagnosis there than here. He states in the article that, probably "1 million people must have celiac disease without knowing it ..." For web access, go to www.chicagotribune.com, search for "celiac" and it will take you to the article. Deb in IL