GF Labeling

[menomena]

Hi ladies,

I'm wondering about GF labeling, Bob's Red Mill in particular.

We stopped buying out of the bulk bins, because the gluten grains/flours were above the GF grains/flours and we were concerned about cross-contamination. Right now I've got a bunch of different Bob's Red Mill flours in my pantry, including: Buckwheat, Brown Rice, Tapioca and Sorghum flours. Only the sorghum package actually says Gluten Free, even though the other packages contain exclusively GF products...

What are other people's experiences with using ostensibley GF products w/o the GF label?

[lil_miss_understood]

Bob's Red Mill is supposedly notorious for "glutening" people- I think because of this exact scenario. I believe that BRM has products which are run on a xc'd line and those which are run on a gf line. For this reason, it's important with this product to make sure it's the gf product and not the other.
However, this is my own speculation. Hopefully, you'll get a better answer.

[menomena]

Hmm. Good to know. We are trying to do a month of no cross-contamination. Nothing out of bulk bins is step one. I guess we now need to progress to packaged food only if it's certified GF. Honestly, the only packaged foods we eat are: rice noodles, GF breakfast cereal, rice crackers, GF (or at least non-gluten, apparently a delicate distinction ) flours. We just got new dishes (DH still eats gluten & dairy & corn). We haven't cooked anything "unsafe" in our pots and pans since October 2007, so I'm assuming the amount of times they've been washed since will have rendered them benign gluten-wise. Maybe this will be that last bit that gets us to all clear. We are so close; have been flirting with it for a month or two... Adding CLO & enzymes to our supplement regime (formerly consisting of probiotics & vitamins) has probably helped a ton, too.

okay, just musing "aloud" here. I've gone over everything so many times in my head, I just need to get it out sometimes.

[lil_miss_understood]

I'm sure it's occurred to you, but just in case, has anyone mentioned wood and plastics as a possible xc risk? I didn't even think of either of these and DS1 made a huge improvement when I replaced my plastic storage-ware (with new plastic stuff because glass was prohibitively expensive).