<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I received several messages concerning cross-contamination at Subway restaurants. The two most informative messages are below. Based on these messages, I won’t be eating at Subway… Dawn @ the Jersey Shore ************** 1st MESSAGE: "I got your email from my mom who has celiac disease...I'm do not have the disease but being 17 and living with my moms diagnoses for the last 17 years I have grown to know what she can and cannot eat.....I work at Subway here in Tacoma, WA. And although on the subway website it states what ingredients are gluten free they still aren't safe for celiacs to eat due to the contamination of the bread products....at my subway store....we put on gloves, pick up the bread, cut the bread....the bread crumbs get into the cheeses and also into the meats, then after we touch the bread and have the bread crumbs on our gloves we then touch the veggies, everything has been in contact wit the bread...even the salads because again we touch the veggies that have bread crumbs in them, even if we change our gloves for a customer request all the cheese, meats, and veggies have been contaminated wit bread crumbs....so I guess what I'm trying to get at is just to let u know since I work at subway that even though some of the items we have are gluten-free doesn't mean they don't have bread crumbs on them which can cause a reaction....I don't want my mom having a reaction and I sure don't want the rest of the celiacs to have a reaction.... Thank you..." MY QUESTION: "Thank you very much for your message. I’ll pass it on to the rest of the list. Can you tell me – is there the same problem with cross-contamination with the salads?" 2nd MESSAGE: "Yes, there is the same problem wit the salads because we use the same veggies on the salads that we do on the sandwiches...so for example....if a customer comes in and orders a turkey sandwich and I make it for them, then a person after them orders a salad we still have the same gloves on that we had when we made the sandwich so the bread crumbs are on the gloves and even if we change the gloves we still used the same gloves to pick the veggies for the sandwich and there are crumbs in the veggies...also our bread have seeds such as the Parmesan oregano bread has loose crumbs on the bread so when we cut the bread and open it the seeds/crumbs get everywhere even in the veggies...so in my opinion subway is not safe at all for celiacs to eat at because everything touches everything and there is a whole lot of cross-contamination.... Your welcome for emailing you and letting you know...I just didn't want anyone to have a reaction with our food because the website says they food is gluten free...I believe that subway should put on our website that their is cross-contamination... Any other questions...just let me know...I have also worked at Orange Julius grill and Chuck-E-Cheese....which there are cross-contamination at those places as well....." * Visit the Celiac Web Page at www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/index.html *