For the gluten sensitive, how do you avoid gluten in prescription medicines?

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5. No, gluten isn't required to be listed anywhere, including food.

Some manufacturers do, some don't. And they have different standards for doing so. So they might claim "NO GLUTEN INGREDIENTS," for example, leaving open the possibility that the food was processed in a machine dusted with gluten-containing flour. This can be okay for some gluten-intolerant people but not for people who have an anaphylactoid reaction to gluten.

Labeling wheat isn't enough because gluten is in other grains, too (barley and rye).

There's a reason gluten isn't listed. Ted Kennedy worked for twenty years to finally get the labeling bill through, so the "top allergens" would have to be labeled. But the only way he could get the food processors to stop fighting it was by taking gluten off the list. So even though more people have a problem with gluten than with several of the other ingredients, gluten was removed from the list.