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I have a friend who runs a Health Food shop and have often
seen how various item are repackaged from bulk to smaller
units.  Although this is done in a clean way (ie low bug
risk) the potential for cross contamination with non-GF is
very high, as the operation may be done under high pressure
while leaping in and out of the shop to serve (and weigh
out!) the very varied stock which he sells.

My first suspicion would be contamination during
repackaging.  I would be surprised if health food dried
apricots were contaminated at original packaging (only big
companies seem to believe that people are incapable of
eating stuck together dried fruit).  We tend to buy in bulk
and have had no CS problems (they do give you the runs if
you pig too many as I - the non-coeliac of the team can
testify - oink! :-)

Regards

David

David J Walland
University of Bristol Radiation Protection Adviser
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