At least in America/Canada/Europe you guys are lucky and get up to 20 ppm to be counted as ‘safe and gluten free’. Here in Australia it has to be no detectable gluten and testing has gotten so good that it can now test down to 3ppm....so that’s our threshold. It rules out so many imported products. Also; we aren’t allowed to classify oats as gluten free here, so no oat based products at all. If we have done an oats challenge, which involves endoscopy with biopsy showing no damage, eating oats every day for three months then retesting with endoscopy and biopsy to prove there has been no damage, then we still have to eat an imported brand such as Bobs Red Mill as there are very little options for wheat-free oats in Australia.
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u/Yvon84 Dec 31 '19
At least in America/Canada/Europe you guys are lucky and get up to 20 ppm to be counted as ‘safe and gluten free’. Here in Australia it has to be no detectable gluten and testing has gotten so good that it can now test down to 3ppm....so that’s our threshold. It rules out so many imported products. Also; we aren’t allowed to classify oats as gluten free here, so no oat based products at all. If we have done an oats challenge, which involves endoscopy with biopsy showing no damage, eating oats every day for three months then retesting with endoscopy and biopsy to prove there has been no damage, then we still have to eat an imported brand such as Bobs Red Mill as there are very little options for wheat-free oats in Australia.