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Scientific Basis for Gluten Policy
Based on the best available information, it is anticipated
that the majority of people with celiac disease will not be
negatively affected if they limit their gluten intake to less
than 10 mg per day.
Exposure modelling was done based on 20 ppm gluten
and a 10 mg per day limit.
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Modelling Daily Gluten Exposure in a Gluten-Free Diet
No information available on a “typical” gluten-free diet
Instead, information on a typical Canadian diet was used
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collected as part of “The Canadian Community Health
Survey – Cycle 2.2 on Nutrition, Statistics Canada, 2004”
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Used 24 hour dietary recall with 10786 respondents
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Data was split into a variety of age/sex categories to reflect
the fact that these groups typically eat different amounts
The amount of gluten-containing grain products in the
typical Canadian diet was analyzed using hypothetical
levels of 5, 10, 20 and 50 ppm of gluten
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