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. 2021 Jun 29;13(7):2244. doi: 10.3390/nu13072244

Table 1.

Studies on the rate of gluten contamination in natural and certified gluten-free foods, as well as food service products.

Type of Products Study Country n Percentage of Food Containing
>20 mg/kg of Gluten
References
Ireland 260 10% McIntosh et al., 2011 [20]
Gluten-free-labeled products Italy, Spain, Germany, and Norway 205 0.5% Gibert et al., 2013 [21]
United States 78 21% Lee et al., 2014 [22]
Brazil 20 16% Oliveira et al., 2014 [23]
United States 275 10% Sharma et al., 2015 [24]
Spain 3141 12% Bustamante et al., 2017 [25]
Turkey 200 17.5% Atasoy et al., 2017 [26]
Italy 56 0% Bianchi et al., 2018 [27]
Brazil 180 3% Farage et al., 2019 [28]
United States 5624 32% Lerner et al., 2019 [29]
Indian 160 36% Raju et al., 2020 [30]
Naturally gluten-free products United States 22 32% Thomson et al., 2010 [31]
Canada 640 9.5% Koerner et al., 2013b [32]
United States 186 19% Sharma et al., 2015 [24]
Indian 160 10% Raju et al., 2020 [30]
Naturally or certified gluten-free products Lebanon 173 6% Hassan et al., 2017 [33]
Italy 200 9% Verma et al., 2017 [34]
Brazil 130 22% Farage et al., 2017 [35]