<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about gluten in salmon feed. First, whatever I had turned out to be flu-like virus, but started with digestive symptoms like gluten. Second, I have been informed by several manufacturers that artificial smoke contains gluten, but natural smoke does not. This has always worked for me in the past that I can have bacon or smoked salmon provided the smoke is not artificial. The consensus was that gluten in the feed doesn’t get through to the consumer, unless, perhaps, you eat any part of the digestive tract (but that was a suggestion, not a fact). One had had real problems with any farmed wild animals as they have high gluten-feed. They exacerbated her DH symptoms. Here are some of the comments: Farm-raised fish are packed into extraordinarily tight quarters. Any food they have been fed will permeate the water they are living in, as some amount will always dissolve. Therefore, I bet their whole exterior is coated with a contaminant of gluten. Then, when the fish is processed--when it is scaled and skinned--gluten from the skin (and therefore the workers' gloves) may contaminate the actual meat. I don't know if this is what happens, but it is a thought. I don't see how gluten in an feed of an animal or fish can make its meat non-GF. Any gluten in the feed would have to be broken down into simple amino acids before being absorbed by its body. Maybe its digestive tract could get non-GF (people do eat parts of this). I did hear one doctor at a conference say that it does, but the amount is too small to worry about. If there are no studies, how does he know? There are studies that gluten gets into breast milk. My husband asked that very question to the nutritionist at the University of Chicago Celiac Department. Her response was that under no circumstances could the food fed to animals that we eat contaminate us. However, she also told me that I can eat items that were prepared in facilities that also prepare gluten. I have wondered about the fish being kept in tanks of water. Some farmers put barley in their ponds to kill algae growth. But I have not gotten any feedback that this is a problem when I have inquired. The proteins (like gluten) eaten by animals are degraded in their stomach into amino acids in order to be digested: HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_in_nutrition#Digestion_of_protein" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_in_nutrition#Digestion_of_protein No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.30/1030 - Release Date: 9/25/2007 8:02 AM * All posts for product information must include the applicable country * Archives are at: Http://Listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?LIST=CELIAC