<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Hi! I'm new here and I'd like to add to your comments on the contamination of food. Here in Perth, Australia, we are in costant touch with food manufacturers through our Society President to maintain awareness of our needs as Coeliacs. It is lucky for us that a preson of high rank in the National Food Authority is a Coeliac himself and after a very informative talk from him we learnt about contaminants in food. There is a food monitoring program set up to detect these contaminants including Gluten. To give an example, Gluten was found present in lupin flour! Why? It was traced back to source and found that the lupins were growing close to a wheat field. When the lupins were harvested the stray wheat grains also got caught up. The point of this story is that we have to keep in touch with our Society who then needs to lobby either the Government or the food authority so that they know how serious this is to Coeliacs. I would never advocate that we " cheat" on this restricting diet, but I do think we have to keep things in perspective........ Regards Gail Cole (please send private email c/o [log in to unmask])