Cross Contamination

 

I think we also have to bear in mind that some companies keep a factory gluten-free, by not having any wheat derived products at all.

Kettle do this. They also have to do it for their Organic products, where nothing non-organic is allowed. Many others do to!

Gluten is quite a simple one for the manufacturer, because if they are sure there is no cross contamination, then they can be pretty sure they won’t get sued for a lot of money! Their lawyers would advise them to either be gluten free or not say anything.

Now unless you get the sort of contamination you used to get in the 50s when a packet of 20 fell into the aniseed ball mix, you should be a whole order of magnitude safer. The cigs in the aniseed balls is true!

I should also say that I’ve worked a lot in chemical factories. Product contamination is something you always take seriously. With food they are a lot more so.