Re: GOOD NEWS ABOUT MCDONALDS FRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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But how do that "extract" the wheat and milk?

Donna M. White, Esq. Bingham McCutchen LLP 150 Federal Street Boston, MA 02110 (Fax) donna.white@...

GOOD NEWS ABOUT MCDONALDS FRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they told me with the new labeling laws they had to include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could put in the cooking oil. They get the wheat and milk extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just received a fax about this this AM and is stating nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali

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But how do that "extract" the wheat and milk?

Donna M. White, Esq. Bingham McCutchen LLP 150 Federal Street Boston, MA 02110 (Fax) donna.white@...

GOOD NEWS ABOUT MCDONALDS FRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they told me with the new labeling laws they had to include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could put in the cooking oil. They get the wheat and milk extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just received a fax about this this AM and is stating nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali

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But how do that "extract" the wheat and milk?

Donna M. White, Esq. Bingham McCutchen LLP 150 Federal Street Boston, MA 02110 (Fax) donna.white@...

GOOD NEWS ABOUT MCDONALDS FRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they told me with the new labeling laws they had to include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could put in the cooking oil. They get the wheat and milk extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just received a fax about this this AM and is stating nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali

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Given the number of very sensitive people I know who

have eaten McD fries over the years with no reaction

AND clear tests, I suspect there's either no gluten in

the fries or it's so miniscule it's not even

measureable.

Unfortunately, we might be seeing more of this as a

result of the labeling law. If there's any chance at

all that there's even molecule, list it or take the

chance that some people will start talking about

class-action lawsuits.

Unfortunately, they're right. I monitor or participate

in four different lists or forums, and somebody's

mentioned a lawsuit at at least three of them --

including here.

The main thing I don't understand about how upset

everybody's getting is that just the mere act of

eating at a place like Mc's is taking a HUGE

chance of cross contamination, much more dangerous IMO

than the chance there's gluten in the first oil.

richard

--- A Olsen wrote:

> I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they

> told me with the new labeling laws they had to

> include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could

> put in the cooking oil. They get the wheat and milk

> extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to

> any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just

> received a fax about this this AM and is stating

> nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said

> they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so

> relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali

>

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To tell you the truth, I was laughing at the hysteria from minute one. We went from "darn, I can't eat fries" to "let's sue", "call Geraldo", and "alert Jerry Springer, Dr. Phil, and Oprah!!!" in the span of just a couple hours. In my opinion, it was a disgusting microcosm of our country as a whole and a harbinger of where we are headed, but I'll leave my own opinion out of this for the moment.

As for myself, I live about 1/4 mile from a Mc's and eat the fries on a pretty frequent basis when I am in a pinch or on travel (very frequently). I am a runner and a cyclist, so I don't have the usual obesity issues associated with people who frequent Mc's. I looked at the whole Mc's thing from a common sense standpoint and not an alarmist one, like most of the denizens of this list. I have been GF for about a year, eat Mc's fries with pretty regular frequency, just had a follow-up endoscopy and was ruled to have "no signs of active celiac". Do you think for a minute that I was going to let some internet celiac expert's opinion keep me from my fries?

Not hardly..

--E GOOD NEWS ABOUT MCDONALDS FRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they told me with the new labeling laws they had to include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could put in the cooking oil. They get the wheat and milk extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just received a fax about this this AM and is stating nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali

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To tell you the truth, I was laughing at the hysteria from minute one. We went from "darn, I can't eat fries" to "let's sue", "call Geraldo", and "alert Jerry Springer, Dr. Phil, and Oprah!!!" in the span of just a couple hours. In my opinion, it was a disgusting microcosm of our country as a whole and a harbinger of where we are headed, but I'll leave my own opinion out of this for the moment.

As for myself, I live about 1/4 mile from a Mc's and eat the fries on a pretty frequent basis when I am in a pinch or on travel (very frequently). I am a runner and a cyclist, so I don't have the usual obesity issues associated with people who frequent Mc's. I looked at the whole Mc's thing from a common sense standpoint and not an alarmist one, like most of the denizens of this list. I have been GF for about a year, eat Mc's fries with pretty regular frequency, just had a follow-up endoscopy and was ruled to have "no signs of active celiac". Do you think for a minute that I was going to let some internet celiac expert's opinion keep me from my fries?

Not hardly..

--E GOOD NEWS ABOUT MCDONALDS FRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they told me with the new labeling laws they had to include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could put in the cooking oil. They get the wheat and milk extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just received a fax about this this AM and is stating nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali

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I doubt Mcs could answer that. You can call the #800 and ask for the number of the distributor they use for the oil. "White, Donna M." wrote: But how do that "extract" the wheat and milk? Donna M. White, Esq. Bingham McCutchen LLP 150 Federal Street Boston, MA 02110 (Fax) donna.white@... GOOD NEWS ABOUT MCDONALDS FRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they told me with the new labeling laws they had to include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could put in the cooking oil. They get the wheat and milk extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just received a fax about this this AM and is stating nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses! ============================================================================Bingham McCutchen LLP Circular 230 Notice: To ensure compliance with IRS requirements, we inform you that any U.S. federal tax advice contained in this communication is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used by any taxpayer, for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. Any legal advice expressed in this message is being delivered to you solely for your use in

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I doubt Mcs could answer that. You can call the #800 and ask for the number of the distributor they use for the oil. "White, Donna M." wrote: But how do that "extract" the wheat and milk? Donna M. White, Esq. Bingham McCutchen LLP 150 Federal Street Boston, MA 02110 (Fax) donna.white@... GOOD NEWS ABOUT MCDONALDS FRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they told me with the new labeling laws they had to include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could put in the cooking oil. They get the wheat and milk extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just received a fax about this this AM and is stating nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses! ============================================================================Bingham McCutchen LLP Circular 230 Notice: To ensure compliance with IRS requirements, we inform you that any U.S. federal tax advice contained in this communication is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used by any taxpayer, for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. Any legal advice expressed in this message is being delivered to you solely for your use in

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i agree . There is always a risk eating out. It depends on so many factors. The past few times I have eaten at McD's I have gotten ill. I figured it was the fries, so I cut them out. I went and ate a burger, no bun and some apple dippers, and didnt miss the fries too much. We just need to use common sense. Amy Central ARRick Lovegro wrote: Given the number of very sensitive people I know whohave eaten McD fries over the years with no reactionAND clear tests, I suspect there's either no gluten inthe fries or it's so miniscule it's not evenmeasureable.Unfortunately, we might be seeing more of this as aresult of the labeling law. If there's any chance atall that there's even molecule, list it or

take thechance that some people will start talking aboutclass-action lawsuits.Unfortunately, they're right. I monitor or participatein four different lists or forums, and somebody'smentioned a lawsuit at at least three of them --including here.The main thing I don't understand about how upseteverybody's getting is that just the mere act ofeating at a place like Mc's is taking a HUGEchance of cross contamination, much more dangerous IMOthan the chance there's gluten in the first oil.richard --- A Olsen wrote:> I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they> told me with the new labeling laws they had to> include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could> put in the cooking oil. They get the wheat and milk> extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to> any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just>

received a fax about this this AM and is stating> nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said> they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so> relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali> > ---------------------------------> Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nastyviruses!__________________________________________________

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All companies are stating "wheat" if there is the smallest possibility of even a speck of wheat in their foods. The new law requires them to state this and I can understand their need to be informative. However, McDonals is the only fast food place in the town I live in that my sons have eaten fries at and have not had a reaction over the last year as celiacs. If in the future they experience a reaction, I will have to reconsider this information about their fries. But for now, they will continue eating at Mcs since our visits their are few times a month anyway. Isabel in CAA Olsen wrote: I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they told me with the new labeling laws they had to include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could put in the cooking

oil. They get the wheat and milk extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just received a fax about this this AM and is stating nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!

[Guest guest]

All companies are stating "wheat" if there is the smallest possibility of even a speck of wheat in their foods. The new law requires them to state this and I can understand their need to be informative. However, McDonals is the only fast food place in the town I live in that my sons have eaten fries at and have not had a reaction over the last year as celiacs. If in the future they experience a reaction, I will have to reconsider this information about their fries. But for now, they will continue eating at Mcs since our visits their are few times a month anyway. Isabel in CAA Olsen wrote: I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they told me with the new labeling laws they had to include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could put in the cooking

oil. They get the wheat and milk extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just received a fax about this this AM and is stating nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!

[Guest guest]

All companies are stating "wheat" if there is the smallest possibility of even a speck of wheat in their foods. The new law requires them to state this and I can understand their need to be informative. However, McDonals is the only fast food place in the town I live in that my sons have eaten fries at and have not had a reaction over the last year as celiacs. If in the future they experience a reaction, I will have to reconsider this information about their fries. But for now, they will continue eating at Mcs since our visits their are few times a month anyway. Isabel in CAA Olsen wrote: I just called MCDONALDS at 1-877-MCD-FOOD and they told me with the new labeling laws they had to include ALL the ingredients that the supplier could put in the cooking

oil. They get the wheat and milk extracted out of their oil before it gets shipped to any of the MCDONALDS. The gentleman said they just received a fax about this this AM and is stating nothing has changed about the fries at all. He said they are prepared to stand behind this. I am so relieved. How does everyone else feel? Ali Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!