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Wolff's
Kasha and other pure buckwheat foof products produced by The Birkett
Mills are gluten free and, therefore, safe for persons who suffer
from Celiac disease.
All
buckwheat received from the farm is thoroughly cleaned of foreign
matter to maximize the purity of the grain prior to milling. Fortunately,
wheat and other glutinous grains are a very different size and shape
than buckwheat, which is actually triangular. Any glutinous grains,
which may rarely be present in buckwheat when received from the
farm, are quite easily removed in our cleaning process.
After
milling, our pure buckwheat food products are packaged immediately
on totally dedicated equipment.
The
Birkett Mills tests for gluten in its pure buckwheat food products
using the enzyme immunoassay based on a monoclonal antibody to omega-glaidin.
This testing procedure was recently adopted as an AOAC official
method for measuring glaidin as a gauge of gluten in foods. None
of the pure buckwheat food products coming directly from our mill
have tested positive for gluten at sensitivity levels above twenty
parts per million (the maximum sensitivity of the test).
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