Mars Bars off the menu for coeliacs too

Noticed a letter on the BBC News site: Does anyone else find it frustrating that "Mars starts using animal products" makes the news, yet "Mars stealthily drops 'gluten free' certification" doesn't?

Googled for more refs, and found a note on the Coeliac Society's newsletter: We are getting lots of enquiries about why Mars ® products (such as MarsTM, GalaxyTM, StarburstTM, BountyTM, SnickersTM) are not listed in this years directory despite them previously being suitable for a gluten-free diet. We are in active dialogue with Mars ®, who report that they are undertaking a risk assessment with regards to the gluten-status of their products.

And found a newsgroup post from someone who'd emailed Masterfoods and been sent a list of the products that were still gluten-free: list is here.

I'm not coeliac, but I can appreciate how frustrating and unnecessary this is.

update re werk: overridden

re yesterday's post about changes to requirements, at last minute and extremely short notice, landing me with some work that I regard as not only unnecessary at this point but also detrimental to things that imo are higher-priority ...

... the problem (which continues to enrage me) is not the change of requirements. Stuff like that happens all the time. It's that I -- who am the sole technical author here, am supposed to coordinate my work and requirements, and am frequently exhorted to take responsibility and make decisions without referring to senior management -- made a decision based on workload, deadlines, target audiences, state of development and interaction with other departments.

And that decision was overruled.

What I'm doing today isn't quite the same as typing up and making 100 copies of today's Times ready for distribution as 'current' on a random date in the future. But it's not far off.