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Bread Vendor Charged with Fraud

I don't usually do news posts, but I've been keeping an eye on this story lately.  Yesterday Paul Seelig, owner of Great specialty Products, was arrested after a court hearing concerning his sale of bread that he claimed was gluten-free when in fact it was not. What concerns me the most about this incident is that while people with celiac disease became extremely ill after eating this man's bread, if he had sold it to someone with a wheat allergy the customer could have actually died.  This vendor seems a pretty blasé about his crime. Here is a link for an AP article on this story from the Sun News: http://www.thesunnews.com/564/story/1295320.html A fellow blogger also did a lot of leg work on this story and has a more detailed report at Gluten Free Raleigh: http://glutenfreeraleigh.blogspot.com/2010/02/nc-vs-great-specialty-products-update.html