Restaurants

Restaurants: Stop Using Wheat-Based Soy Sauce in Gluten-Free Meals

Tricia Thompson2020-01-15T21:26:14+00:00 If you come across a restaurant using wheat-based soy sauce in a meal marked gluten-free, please share the information below with the manager. A pdf of the letter is available here. Dear restaurant manager, It has come to our attention that your restaurant is using certain sauces, including shoyu soy sauce and representing these sauces as gluten-free to your patrons. Under the FDA's gluten-free labeling rule, wheat-based soy sauces and sauces containing wheat-based soy sauce as an ingredient may NOT be labeled gluten-free. According to the FDA, “If a soy sauce is made from wheat and...

Reclaim Gluten-Free: Help Stop the Misuse of the Term Gluten-Free by Restaurants

Tricia Thompson2020-01-07T20:43:32+00:00 The term gluten-free has a regulatory definition. This definition was created because of celiac disease. Only those restaurants that are able to provide appropriate meals for folks with celiac disease should use it. What the FDA says about gluten-free claims and restaurants: “If restaurants or other retail food establishments wish to make “gluten-free” claims (or the synonymous claims “no gluten” “free of gluten” or “without gluten”) for any of their menu items, these foods should meet all of the requirements FDA has established for...