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A conversation with a friend prompted me to contact McCormick. Here's their
response:



Thank you for taking the time to contact us.  We appreciate your interest
in our
Grill Mates Product and welcome the opportunity to be of assistance to you.

All of our Grill Mates products are gluten free except our Ginger Teriyaki
Marinade and Grilling Sauce.

We are aware of special allergies and intolerances to certain ingredients
such as
the following:

Peanuts           Fish        Soy proteins            Sulfites
Tree nuts         Eggs        Wheat proteins    Yellow No. 5 & 6
Shellfish         Milk        Red Pepper

As a responsible food company, McCormick follows the U.S. Food Drug &
Cosmetic Act regulations to ensure consumer safety concerning food
allergens.
We declare these ingredients on our label in the ingredient statement.
Federal
regulations require us to list sulfites if they are over 10 parts per
million, so we
use that as our label declaration limit.

If a product does not have an ingredient statement, it is a pure spice or
herb with
nothing added and is gluten free.  In addition, the alcohol in all of our
extracts
does not come from grain and is gluten free.

Because we are constantly improving our products, we do not offer a list of
our
products that do not currently contain glutens.  We encourage you to read
the
ingredient statement on your package at the time of purchase to ensure
accurate, up to date information.

In addition, we follow good manufacturing practices at our plants.  Our
employees are trained in the importance of correct labeling and the
necessity of
performing thorough equipment wash-downs to eliminate cross-contact of
ingredients.

Although we cannot guarantee our products to be 100% free of allergens not
listed on the label, we want you to know that we take this situation
seriously and
have taken extra precautions to eliminate the possibility of mislabeling or
cross-
contact.

We invite you to sign up from our website to be a regular "My McCormick"
user
and receive our monthly online newsletter with recipes and cooking tips.

If we can be of further assistance, please call us at 1-800-632-5847,
Monday
through Friday, 9:30AM to 5PM Eastern Time.  If you wish to respond to this
note
by e-mail, please include your name and e-mail address.

We hope to have the continued pleasure of serving you.

Sincerely,

Julie Hildebrandt
Consumer Affairs Specialist
Ref # 521439

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