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Just this year, the Food and Drug Administration started requiring that product labels disclose the presence of wheat, specifically, as well as eight other common allergens.

It will take until 2008 for those labels to specify the presence of any gluten.

Increasingly, Bast says, restaurants, caterers and prepared-food markets across the country are getting the message and becoming accommodating.

Web-based businesses such as Pam's Celiac Kitchen, in Bedminster, N.J., deliver celiac-free ingredients and fully prepared dishes to your door (or the bedside of an ailing friend).

Still, eating out remains another matter - and a necessary one if we are to remain a sociable society.

• Initially, Ross Cohen and his fiancee, Kay Inamine, printed out a page from a Web site with information and warnings about foods that contain gluten and handed it out at restaurants they visited.

"But the wording was harsh and scary," Inamine said.

"Some restaurants turned us away because they were afraid of making him sick.

They didn't want to be sued." Inamine concluded she needed friendlier cards, and the couple settled on a do-it-yourself solution.

Together they researched and published The Essential Gluten-Free Restaurant Guid...

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