At the 2018 ACG Annual Scientific Meeting, Columbia University Medical Center researchers – including Celiac Disease Foundation Medical Advisory Board member Peter Green and Research Committee member Benjamin Lebwohl – presented results from a new study on detecting gluten in restaurant foods.
Because there is no regulation of the claims made by restaurants that food items are gluten-free, there is no guarantee that food items that are labeled “gluten-free” in restaurants are truly gluten-free.
It is important to note that these results come from crowd-sourced data, meaning these results may not be reflective of all gluten-free restaurant foods.
Celiac Disease Foundation Medical Advisory Board member Daniel Leffler, MD, told Medscape Medical News, “This is a very clever study done that unfortunately confirms what we have long suspected, which is that there is no such thing as a gluten-free diet.