Gluten-Free Labeling Petition

Dear Friends, Colleagues and CGP's,

The ACDA Needs Your Help!  Please see their message below and act if you can.

We Need Your Signature!  The American Celiac Disease Alliance (ACDA) sent us information about a petition for gluten-free labeling.  We need 25,000 signatures on this petition by November 1st before the White House even looks at it.  We are only halfway there, with 12,600 signatures.  You may read the full petition in the link below.
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WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:

Finalize Standards for GLUTEN-FREE Labeling

The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act required Health and Human Services to set a gluten-free labeling rule by 2008 to aid people with celiac disease, a life-threatening autoimmune condition.  The only known treatment is a strict gluten-free diet.

An estimated 3 million Americans have celiac and even more may have non-celiac gluten sensitivity.  Without adequate labeling, those on a medically prescribed gluten-free diet struggle to make safe food choices and stay well.

Children with celiac cannot participate in the National School Lunch Program when food service staff cannot determine if products are gluten-free.

Congress did its part by passing the law.  It is up to the White House to protect the health of millions of adults and children by finalizing the rule NOW!

Click Here to view the petition.  You can read more at www.AmericanCeliac.org.

We strongly urge you to sign it yourself and to forward this email to others. 

You will need to create an account, which will test your email.  This is to ensure that the email addresses provided actually belong to individuals.  Only one vote may be cast per email address. 

 

Let's Make A Difference Together!

Sincerely, Tom O'Bryan, DC, CCN, DACBN  Latest Statistics:   The incidence of CD increased five-fold from 1.3 per 100,000 in 1999  to 6.5 per 100,000 in 2008, with the highest rates  of increase among those over 34 years of age   Am J Gastroenterol. 2012 Aug;107(8):1248-55

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