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Jan
2017
02
Dec
2016
Testing Oat Products Using the Nima
Please watch the video Using Nima to test heterogeneous samples such as oats before watching this video. It is available at https://www.glutenfreewatchdog.org/news/using-nima-test-heterogeneous-samples-oats/. In the current video I test a box of "gluten-free" Cheerios from the 2015 recall and a carton of regular Quaker oats using Nima. Both of these products are highly likely to be contaminated with gluten and are not recommended for persons with gluten-related disorders regardless of test results using the Nima. My intention in testing these two...
26
Oct
2016
Using the Nima to test heterogeneous samples such as oats
Please also see my initial comments on the Nima Sensor at https://www.glutenfreewatchdog.org/news/nima-portable-food-testing-device/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2GnG-3oye8
05
Aug
2016
Nima, the Portable Food Testing Device
Published 8/5/2016 Gluten Free Watchdog receives at least one question each week about Nima asking our opinion on the testing device. Included below is the email sent to subscribers to GFWD in June. You also may be interested in listening to a GFWD video about some of the complexities associated with testing food for gluten. It is available HERE. Nima: Many of you continue to have questions about Nima, the portable food testing device in development by 6 Sensor Labs. GFWD...
30
Aug
2022
Gluten Free Watchdog no longer recommends GF Harvest as a source of purity protocol oats
Update January, 4, 2023: Gluten Free Watchdog does not recommend GF Harvest as a source of gluten-free oats. Four bags of oat flour (Best by date 06/23, Lot # 0452.001.9.007) tested between 6 and 32 parts per million of gluten. Unfortunately, the manufacturer never responded to an email from Gluten Free Watchdog alerting them to the results. Until further notice, Gluten Free Watchdog does not recommend GF Harvest as a source of purity protocol oats. Gluten Free Watchdog recently analyzed five...
25
May
2022
Liquid IV: Statement from Gluten Free Watchdog
Gluten Free Watchdog received several complaints about this product from consumers after they tested Liquid IV using lateral flow devices, including EZ Gluten and Nima Sensor and received positive results for gluten. A consumer's retained sample and a new box of the same flavor of Liquid IV were tested at Bia Diagnostics, LLC (an accredited laboratory) using the fully validated sandwich R5 ELISA, the competitive R5 ELISA, and EZ Gluten test strips. When the product was tested using the sandwich and...
08
Jul
2020
Dietitian Experiences Using a Novel Portable Personal Testing Gadget For Gluten
This article was published in Medical Nutrition Matters (Winter 2019 Volume 38 No. 3), a publication of Dietitians in Medical Nutrition Therapy--a practice group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. https://www.glutenfreewatchdog.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/NIMADietitian-Experiences-Using-a-Novel-Portable-Personal-Testing-Gadget-For-Gluten
02
Mar
2020
Running List of Potentially Misbranded Gluten-Free Products Reported to FDA & USDA by Gluten Free Watchdog in 2020/2021/2022/2023
This list is updated when necessary to include additional misbranded products and recall status. Thank you to the consumers who have reported products to Gluten Free Watchdog and shared photos. It takes a gluten-free village to do this work. Golden Toad BBQ Finishing Sauce Sweet & Smokey. This product is labeled gluten-free yet the mesquite smoke powder ingredient lists malt barley flour as a sub-ingredient. The ingredients list on the manufacturer website is different. We reached out to the manufacturer...
17
Sep
2018
When an individual is maligned because his scientific opinion is at odds with the commercial messaging surrounding a food-testing gadget we have a problem
Background: As many of you know, Gluten Free Watchdog has been independently testing, assessing, and writing about the Nima Sensor for gluten for a couple of years. Third party testing data was recently released. As a result, we provided an update to our position statement on the testing gadget* (we are not able to recommend it). In our post we included the following statement from Adrian Rogers, Senior Research Scientist at Romer Labs about the Nima Sensor and the third party...
17
May
2018