<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Thanks so much. I had great responses both supporting and against. See below: Support the use of Juice Plus: I am a representative of Juice Plus and have been working extensively on the gluten issue of late. Here is the story...I tried to post it to the list, but apparently they didn't let it go through. We are currently in compliance with what the Celiac Sprue Association requires for a product to be called gluten-free. This goes for ALL products, so when something says gluten-free, this is what it means. The test that was available up till sometime this year only tested to a sensitivity of "less than 200 parts per million". Testing "ppm" is the way all tests, including herbicidal tests, are read. A more sensitive test has become available (will test to 20 ppm) but we are not currently using that test because the Celiac Sprue Assoc. has not changed their guidelines. When they do, we will retest. We have celiac patients on the product and they are not experiencing any problems. The part of the barley and oats that are used are the outer parts of the grain, not the inner parts, which is where most of the gluten comes from. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have a Celiac son who takes the Juice Plus gummies. He has taken them for a year, every day, fruit in the morning and veggies in the evening. He recently had an egd and colonoscopy done to explore another medical issue he was having. Turns out his colon is slowly healing from an infection. His small intestine looked perfect, beautiful, and absolutely normal, biopsies and all. So I take that as proof enough for me that they are gf. Btw, we were recommended them by a celiac RN. She has taught nutrition classes and is very knowledgeable about Celiac disease. She was literally near death when she started taking juice plus. She contributes much of her recovery to them. Against I did attend a meeting in Kansas City last week and talked with a representative of ADM (Archer-Daniels-Midland) Co. They do a lot of grain milling and he said that the bran and germ fractions are mostly used for animal feed. The small amount they sell for human consumption is not specially processed by them. It might be washed slightly by the user, but the feeling of the person I talked with was that thorough washing would be unlikely. So, even though I can't come up with any quantitative information on the amount of endosperm remaining with the bran and germ fractions (it will probably vary according to the end user's processing), my feeling is that too much is present for a celiac patient to risk eating products that contain a significant proportion of either wheat bran or germ. The ADM executive was in agreement on that. As I said in my earlier post, white bits of endosperm attached to the bran are very noticeable in a freshly milled bran fraction from a Brabender Quadrumat Senior mill, which is a fairly sophisticated experimental mill that I have used occasionally. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I looked into the same issue w/ my celiac son. I was given the same info from the company about juice plus being GF. A few listmates also wrote me and said they take them with no problems. HOWEVER, I spoke w/ Dr. Michelle Pietzak (Director of Celiac Research- West Coast)about the claim that the gluten is removed, and she said if the label says barley (in any form)...don't use it. There's no evidence that gluten can be 100% removed. SO- I chose not to use it. While I'm sure it's a great product, there are plenty of others that are GF. *Support summarization of posts, reply to the SENDER not the Celiac List*