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Hi and thank you all of you (numerous people) who responded to me.

2 messages were questions for more informations, but all the rest were re-
enforcement of what I had posted.  I deleted a few of them by mistake, but 
they were the same kind, more or less.
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"Hi-  thanks for your wise words.  I wrote to an expert on the subject and 
here is what she answered.
(name removed) 

Ann said:  approx 50% if the people on this site react to vinegar.  I 
questioned two
friends, one a pharmacist the other a college science prof about
distillation.  They said that while theoretically, distillation removes all
the gluten, in reality nothing is 100 percent.  A molecule can remain and
that molecule affects us.  Newbies in partiular are very sensititive to
vinegar in additon to canola oil [rapeseed grown on fallow wheat fields] 
and
cheap balsamic vinegar which is often cut with white vinegar.  End of 
quotation.

approx 50% if the people on this site react to vinegar.  I questioned two
friends, one a pharmacist the other a college science prof about
distillation.  They said that while theoretically, distillation removes all
the gluten, in reality nothing is 100 percent.  A molecule can remain and
that molecule affects us.  Newbies in partiular are very sensititive to
vinegar in additon to canola oil [rapeseed grown on fallow wheat fields] 
and
cheap balsamic vinegar which is often cut with white vinegar
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"Mireille,

Your post below brings up an interesting point: crackpots who use 
reputable 
groups to spread fear and unfounded rumors. There are two posters in the 
celiac listserve, Ann being one of them, who I'd like to see removed from 
the 
group because they routinely post unfounded nonsense. Unfortunately, the 
moderators of this group don't seem to screen posts or vet posters in any 
way.

Pity we can't figure out how affix warning labels to certain posts!"
Maureen
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Thank you!  I came to the same conclusion, but I spent some time worrying 
that cheese wasn't okay for my boys after some posts raising that 
concern.  I finally concluded after some fruitless calls to Kraft and 
looking on the web that if there was any gluten from that source, it was 
so microscopic that it was probably negligible.  My conclusion bore the 
happy result of normal TTG's for both boys (who LOVE cheese)!  Thanks for 
addressing that...on behalf of someone who was recently new to all of this!
 Diadra 
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Hi Mireille,
Thank you so much for your informed and common sense replies. Some of the 
posts drive me crazy with stupidity and paranoia although once in awhile I 
do learn something new.  
Barb 
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What is it about this person? Hasn't she written some pretty weird 
stuff in the past? Once she decides something is true it doesn't 
matter what you say or show her, she doesn't change her mind. And 
then she spreads the misinformation.

When I wrote her very politely saying essentially what you just said, 
she replied:

"my we are nasty.....check archives, dummy" (the archives actually back me 
up).

Oh well. I also sent a message about it to the list.
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Thank you.  I have been at this for 7 years now and also have never found 
that to be the case.  I had not had time to check into it yesterday to 
correct the misinformation.  

From someone who wanted it corrected, thank you for doing this.  I am also 
sure a big thank you is in order form the newly diagnosed who were utterly 
confused by the posts.
Francie 
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Hooray!!

I didn't have the research to back it up but I am glad that you did.

People do a disservice to our community when they post unfounded 
information that further restricts our diet.

Thank you for speaking up!

Michael
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I appreciate your willingness to speak out and clarify this matter.  I
suspected the other party was misinformed, but wasn't %100 sure.  Now I
know ;-).  Thanks, Lynn
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