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How do you get someone to understand cross-contamination
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jsb



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can buy plastic covers for microwave food to prevent splatters. It might be a good investment to bring 2 to work - 1 for everybody else, and 1 that has never touched their food for you to use. They're not very expensive, so it wouldn't be too bad. I guess you'd just have to label them clearly and/or hide yours so there wouldn't be any mix-up. Good luck.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cruelshoes wrote:
Here is an exercise we did with our girl scout troop. We were talking about how germs are spread. One person put a little bit of glitter on her hands. She then shook hands witht he person next to her. Then that person shook hands with the next person and so on. By the time we got to the end of the row, we all looked at our hands. Each and every one of us had glitter on our hands. I'm not suggesting that you cover BF with glitter (although it might be fun Shocked ) it does prove the point.

It's the same with gluten. A few crumbs spread around here and there add up to quite a lot over time. Gluten in measured in parts per MILLION for a reason. Incremental exposure is real and it can hurt us. He may come to realize this over time as your health improves.


Does anybody know if there is such a thing as edible glitter? It would be GREAT to bake some into gluteny finger foods and serve them to unsuspecting folks at a potluck or church social or some such. Then at the end have everybody look at all the things that have glitter on them, including chairs, salt shakers, etc. etc. ad nauseum. THEN talk about cross-contamination. Very Happy Shocked Cool
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You'd have to check to see if these are GF

http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/flowers/glitter.htm

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E310D1E-475A-BAC0-5E0EF1DB7697E8A1
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

aklap wrote:
You'd have to check to see if these are GF

http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/flowers/glitter.htm

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E310D1E-475A-BAC0-5E0EF1DB7697E8A1


WOW! Thanks! I will definitely check into those! Very Happy
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