Wellshire Kids Gluten Free Chicken Bites
Submitted by JeBas on Tue, 10/16/2007 - 02:49.
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A gluten free, breaded chicken nugget that was cut out into fun little dinosaur shapes.
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CAUTION - this product may be MISLABLED and not gluten free!!!
From CHICAGOTRIBUNE.COM November 22, 2008
ALLERGY THREAT: A TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION
Children at risk in food roulette
Mislabeling, lax oversight threaten people with allergies
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"Take the example of Peggy Pridemore, a Kentucky woman who bought Wellshire Kids' Dinosaur Shapes Chicken Bites because her son Patrick has a severe wheat allergy. Bold letters on the packaging said the item was "gluten free," or contained no wheat, rye and barley proteins.
After Patrick, then 3, ate the nuggets in December, he started coughing, his eyes swelled and he had trouble breathing. His mom jabbed his leg with a large needle containing epinephrine, a drug to help him breathe, then raced him to the hospital, where he recovered in the emergency room.
Pridemore said she contacted both the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the food manufacturer and that neither offered to test the chicken nuggets.
The Tribune recently bought the product on two occasions at a River Forest supermarket and sent the samples to one of the nation's leading food-allergy labs, at the University of Nebraska. Both times, the lab found gluten. The item remains on shelves across the U.S.
"I'm stunned it hasn't been recalled," Pridemore said. "I thought somebody somewhere would do something."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-081120-allergens-tribune-investigation,0,506031.story
Thank You.
Thank you for pointing this out to me. I was getting to the point I was praising Welshire for marking so many of their products gluten free.
P.S. I made a slight edit so readers can click through to the Chicago Tribune story.
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