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Gluten content of imported gluten‐free foods: national and international implications
Author(s) -
Forbes Geoffrey M,
Dods Kenneth
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja16.00485
Subject(s) - library science , citation , medical journal , history , computer science
oeliac disease (CD) is the only common disease for which strict dietary compliance is the sole treatment. Sensitivity to Cgluten varies between patients with CD, so that restricting levels in food tounder onepartpermillion (ppm)wouldprotect the maximum number of patients. In a daily diet of 500 g food, 1 ppm is equivalent to 0.5 mg, the amount in 1/5000 of a slice of wheat flour bread containing 2.5 g gluten.