Contaminated Gluten in Bread

[Muck]

I sense the birth of a new one here. The identification of many pet foods with contaminated wheat gluten seems to be spawning a confabulation between the imported gluten and some bakery products that we find in the local bread section. Has anybody run into this yet?
One Safeway in Dallas, OR (near Salem) has told customers that they have pulled all of their Safeway brand bread products. I have my doubts. Then again, I've been hanging around these parts for a long time.

Muck

[snopes]

Comment: I just received an e-mail claiming that the federal government
shut down the Safeway baking plant in Clackamas, Oregon, because they use
the same flour/gluten that was in the contaminated pet food. The e-mail
advises everyone to not buy Safeway bread. I didn't see anything on your
website about this, so I'm checking to see if it is true.

[rhiandmoi]

There was a Safeway bread recall a couple of weeks ago, but it was unrelated to the gluten issue, there were wire fragments found in some loaves.

http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_069012645.html

[Muck]

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: I just received an e-mail claiming that the federal government
shut down the Safeway baking plant in Clackamas, Oregon, because they use
the same flour/gluten that was in the contaminated pet food. The e-mail
advises everyone to not buy Safeway bread. I didn't see anything on your
website about this, so I'm checking to see if it is true.

Oh, great. Another email hits the internets.

[Pseudo_Croat]

OK, suppose some of the contaminated gluten that was in the pet food did end up in human food, and a person ate the tainted bread. Would the person suffer the same health problems as the pets?

- Pseudo_Croat

[Sara@home]

Is wheat gluten commonly added to bread? I never heard of it but that doesn't mean anything. Seems a product made almost completely of wheat wouldn't need gluten added to it. None of the bread products I have on hand has added gluten.

[niner]

Originally Posted by Pseudo_Croat

OK, suppose some of the contaminated gluten that was in the pet food did end up in human food, and a person ate the tainted bread. Would the person suffer the same health problems as the pets?

- Pseudo_Croat

Presumably so, but to a lesser extent. For one thing, people tend to eat bread as only a small part of their diet. Many pets are provided only one or two sources of food, or one main source of food and various additions to that, so a single contaminated food source can build up quickly from a nuisance to a toxic level.

Henry

[Bassist]

My understanding is that the gluten that was used in the recalled pet foods was clearly indicated as not for use by humans. I would be very surprised to find that it was used to make bread or any other products for use by humans, since the FDA is known to watch imports very stringently.

Of course, if new evidence has arisen, I would gladly admit my mistake