In my Advancing Nutrition magazine for Health Professionals from Higher Nature there is an article explaining The Labelling Maze.
You may remember some time ago I complained to Higher Nature about their labelling and using the terminology No Added which meant that something may have been added by the companies they bought the ingredients from which was the case with one supplement I bought and went into shock after consuming.
I love Higher Nature, I have used them for ages but this reaction naturally put me off. Now this darling British company have gone to the huge expense of changing their procedures.
Not only brownie points do they receive from me, but huge accolades. This is such good news for allergy and food intolerant people.
This is what they state:
Higher Nature will continue to identify whether its products ‘do not contain gluten, wheat, etc.’ For Higher Nature, ‘gluten-free’ will continue to mean ‘absence of gluten’ because we identify the source of all ingredients, we know if wheat or other grains have been part of the manufacturing process of other ingredients. Where a gluten-containg grain, such as wheat, is a starter material for maltodextrin, for example, we take the view that it is better to identify this and allow practitioners and consumers to make the individual decisions on the suitability of the product. If you are not sure where the gluten may be present in any of our products, our helpful team of nutritionists are at hand to advise.
The article in the Professionals Magazine was generated because of New Legislation from Brussels for the labelling of gluten-free foods that is currently in effect.
It is called The Codex Standard and it means that Foods containing less than 20 ppm gluten will be labelled ‘Gluten Free’. Foods containing between 20 and 100 ppm gluten will be labelled as ‘very low gluten’. This is apparently a better standard than it was before as it was set at 200 ppm before gluten had to be declared. The standard was changed in July 2008. It is impossible to have a zero gluten level, even rice may contain 20 ppm.
As a matter of rationale, Colloidal Silver is a product that many people use for its antimicrobial effect. I have used it and it has cleared up many conditions for me from styes, sore throats, mouth ulcers, athletes foot, actually it clears up all conditions for me. The product I use has 10 ppm.
What I am demonstrating here is that a product of 10 ppm has an effect therefore those who are intolerant to gluten, consuming 20 ppm is going to have an effect on them and they will not know because it will not state contains gluten.
How did Brussels get this passed?
This next link takes you to the article when I went into shock over consuming a supplement with wheat in: Allergies, supplements, medication and No Added labelling
Just a little complaint, it really would be helpful if the full ingredient’s listing that appears on the Higher Nature products could be reproduced on their website too.
I personally feel that problems begin and end with synthetically altered foods and that gluten naturally present in grains isn’t so detrimental but gluten added to foods for example canadian wheat does cause a problem.
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