<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Deni wrote: Anyway, if you are so inclined, why not drop a nice little note to them asking why gluten is not required to be listed on food and drug labels. I just did. <snip> That e-mail message to the FDA is a nicety, but I, skeptic that I am, don't think any real action will be taken unless formal, legal, official and specific action is taken. If you read through the FDA archives, and thier legal updates, it is a kind of a *bumbling bureaucracy*. Oftentimes formal petitions and legal actions go through, by default, because the FDA failed to meet it's own timelines, and deadlines to respond. How many years did it take just to make uniform the Nutritional Facts label (US). Food manufacturers fought hard to avoid having to disclose in the required font <type> size just how much fat, carbohydrate & cholesterol consumers were getting. What they did do though, was "adjust" the serving size, to tweak the numbers. Want an example? Buy a little bag of Fritos from a vending machine...... serving size ? 3 servings in this little package. You can triple all those numbers for fat and calories, unless this little bag will in fact be 3 servings. <not likely>. Still this was years in the making, and pulled from the fire more than once. IF the National Groups would agree on the basics, <what grains are safe, which ones are not> getting better labeling would be something they could take the leadership role with, and begin the process. Still , I would not hold my breath! ~Fran Western Oregon where Fall has arrived!