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"Donald D. Kasarda" <[log in to unmask]> writes:
 
>Beverly Sosulski wrote:
>
>>Kelloggs products contain more than 0.02g/kg of Gluten and
>>are toxic to Coeliacs.
>
>I would be interested in learning how the amount of 0.02 g/kg was arrived
>at.  I would also like to point out that, to the best of my knowledge, such
>an extremely small amount of gluten has never been demonstrated in any
>scientific way to be harmful to celiac patients.  To put this quantity in
>other ways, it is 0.002% and a normal serving of cereal, say 50 g, would
>have only 1 mg of gluten in it at the 0.02 g/kg level.
 
There is a problem with this way of thinking.  Whereas 0.02 g/kg (or 1 mg)
gluten may be a very tiny amount and may actually be tolerated by many
people who are gluten intolerant, the effect may be cumulative.  That is,
that tiny little 1 mg becomes 3 mg/week if three items containing the
'unharmful' level of of 1 mg gluten are eaten in a week's time.  Where
do you draw the line?
                                                BJ