The Canadian Celiac Association has a web site with extensive information about celiac, and its control through diet. Those interested in more detailed information may visit the web site at www.celiac.ca.
We receive frequent inquiries from customers with celiac disease. People suffering with celiac have an allergy to the gluten (protein) found in wheat, rye, barley, and possibly oats. Celiac disease has no cure, but it can be controlled through diet by refraining from consuming any products that has gluten added.
We have a number of products that we can guarantee are gluten-free, containing no plant proteins of any kind.
We place our products into three categories, as follows:
1. Gluten-free
These product are produced in a separate room that does not have any glutens in it as well on separate equipment that does not process any gluten containing products. The list of these products follows below.
2. No glutens added
Many of the Harvest Meats products such as our wieners do not have glutens added to the product, however they are produced in a room and on equipment that also produces gluten-containing products. We do have a program in place that includes such things as scheduling non-gluten-containing product before gluten containing ones whenever possible as well as complete wash down of the equipment and area between products any time a gluten containing product is produced before non-gluten containing ones. In this way we reduce the likelihood of cross contamination of products. However since there is still a slight possibility of cross contamination Harvest Meats has decided to consider these product No Glutens Added rather than Gluten Free. It should also be noted that glutens are considered a common allergen and so whenever any form of wheat is added to a product at any level it must be declared on the label. Harvest Meats also has a program in which all products are reviewed prior to label approval to ensure no wheat is in the product.
3. Containing gluten
The last category is simply those products that do contain glutens.
The following Harvest products are gluten-free:
Harvest Cottage Rolls
Harvest Smoked Pork Loin
Harvest Black Forest Ham
Harvest Old Fashioned Ham
Harvest Smoked Leg Ham
Harvest Smoked Shankless Picnic Pork Shoulder
Harvest Bacon
Harvest Back Bacon
Harvest Boneless and Rolled Ham
Harvest Premium Ham
Harvest Pork Hocks
Maple Birch Hams
Reviewed April 2009
