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“I think we can certainly talk about it”

Talking about wrapping all food in our society using a product derived from an allergen like this is going to cause trauma and worry for those with serious allergies

What should we discuss next, nut plastic ?

If it was nuts and it only contains 50 bits of nuts per million grams ? And this makes sick only a few thousand people with the most sensitive nut allergy it’s ok to talk about doing it ?

No. This idea is so stupid and upsetting to many it should be binned immediately.

It will open the door to cross contamination of every food in our society with gluten.

As we have seen with sugar derived from wheat making many coeliacs sick , it is impossible to safely separate individual molecules from what or barley.

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> Talking about wrapping all food in our society using a product derived from an allergen like this is going to cause trauma and worry for those with serious allergies

It is really productive to tell people not to talk about something because talking about it might cause trauma or worry? Does this thread need a trigger warning?

The FDA has, IMO quite reasonably, created an actual definition of “gluten-free”. The OP describes this new material as “amylose-derived”, and amylose is a starch. Any problematic proteins could surely be separated from the starches to much better than the FDA requirement.

Why would producers go beyond the FDA legal requirement? Would they not be brought to bankruptcy by the free market for doing such things?

I believe you don’t think through anything you say if you can say something as foolish as that.

Companies already do not go beyond the standard required by the FDA when they were use sugar derived from wheat in their products.

This “sugar” makes people who are very sensitive to gluten very ill and uncertain as to what foods are genuinely safe.

The FDA do not require companies to put labels on the food stating it’s derived from wheat. They don’t have to label the food as containing wheat or gluten.

Yet the food for example sweets where 80% of its composition may come directly from sugar “derived from” (and so is) wheat basically and contaminated are just labelled as containing sugar.

I don’t think any gluten intolerant person wants to be chewing on mouthfuls of partial wheat or have all of their foods wrapped in similar materials

The FDA will gaslight them and hand wave it a away saying that they can’t reliably test levels below a certain threshold and they’re being selfish as micro plastics are harming the 99.9% (which is bs)

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