Gluten-Free Status/Product Update

Sunday, May 21, 2006

McCormick Spices

(The following inquiry response was received by NCSG member M. C.)


Dear Consumer;

Thank you for taking the time to contact us.
We appreciate your interest in our McCormick products and welcome the opportunity to be of assistance to you.We are aware of special allergies and intolerances to certain ingredients such as the following:
Peanuts
Fish
Soy proteins
Sulfites
Tree nuts
Eggs
Wheat proteins
Yellow No. 5 & 6
Shellfish
Milk
Red Pepper

As a responsible food company, McCormick follows the U.S. Food Drug & Cosmetic Act regulations to ensure consumer safety concerning food allergens. We declare these ingredients on our label in the ingredient statement. Federal regulations require us to list sulfites if they are over 10 parts per million, so we use that as our label declaration limit. If a product does not have an ingredient statement, it is a pure spice or herb with nothing added and is gluten free. In addition, the alcohol in all of our extracts does not come from grain and is gluten free.

Because we are constantly improving our products, we do not offer a list of our products that do not currently contain glutens. We encourage you to read the ingredient statement on your package at the time of purchase to ensure accurate, up to date information.

In addition, we follow good manufacturing practices at our plants. Our employees are trained in the importance of correct labeling and the necessity of performing thorough equipment wash-downs to eliminate cross-contact of ingredients. Although we cannot guarantee our products to be 100% free of allergens not listed on the label, we want you to know that we take this situation seriously and have taken extra precautions to eliminate the possibility of mislabeling or cross-contact.

We invite you to sign up from our website to be a regular "My McCormick" user and receive our online newsletter with recipes and cooking tips.

If we can be of further assistance, please call us at 1-800-632-5847,Monday through Friday, 9:30AM to 5PM Eastern Time. We hope to have the continued pleasure of serving you.

Sincerely,
Consumer Affairs Specialist
Ref # 630333

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