Looking For Certified Gluten Free Ink

[transcend]

it's on my hands so much, i'd just feel alot better if the usda certified some as gluten-free and hopefully organic, ink, or, pigmented fluid for writing.

 

anyone heard of this yet?

[RMN]

I doubt there is any ink made with wheat extracts.

 

But if you fear hand contamination and your celiac is that severe, I suggest using gloves, as you never know who has eaten a cookie or a sandwich before shaking your hand.

 

Actually I never heard of problems when using normal hygienic procedures.

 

 

D.ick

[PS104]

I assume you're past the thumb-sucking stage so unless you bite your fingernails FAHGEDABOUDIT

[amberleadavis]

While I personally don't drink my ink (it's too expensive) I don't believe any inks are made with wheat. The organic inks are made in small batches - check out the ink recipe section - warning, you do need biocides in inks that you intend to keep for any length of time. In my collection I have inks made from Oak galls. I don't think you will find a readily commercially available ink that is organic.

[Davros]

Do you have a wheat skin allergy?

 

Normally, the inflammation caused by ingested allergens is usually caused by antibody, which can be produced in responeed to pretty much any foreign molecule.

 

You want to keep allergens out of your bloodstream. Generally, skin contact is less risky. You don't normally have skin-to-blood transfer. You can develop dermatitis, but that usually is a result of a different kind of cell, which requires uptake of protein by your other cells (and it has to be protein), presentation of the protein, and then recognition by your T cells.

 

Skin and gut both have distinct immune cell populations, and in most people, there's a pretty high threshold you have to hit for a response. I can imagine a scenario where it could be an issue, but only if you've got some other very unlikey problems (for an extended period, like years).

 

So, you can not worry because it's unlikely to be an issue, or because putting protein in ink would be a recipe for disaster. Protein is good bacterial food but terrible at color changes. Dyes are pretty much always small (really small) molecules.

 

If you're concerned about protein, I would advise against naturally-sourced dyes, since that's the only source of contamination I can envision.

[Paddler]

Gluten-free ink? Yeah, they make it. It spoils very easily so they have to keep it in the store's dairy case with the boneless ice cream and the Ba$tard Toadflax suffle.

[SujiCorp12345]

More people looking to drink ink?

[Mr. Pink]

More people looking to drink ink?

It's can't be any worse than Coke.

 

How about a sugar free ink?

[Chris Rozon]

All my inks are free range and cruelty free.

[RMN]

While the question may sound funny to you all, I can assure you that having celiac disease is not funny at all.

 

 

D.ick

[Mr. Pink]

My apologies - I never heard of such a thing.

[Morphling27]

What part of ink would even have gluten in it? The vast majority is water. Most dyes are commercial grade type stuff and I don't know of any normal dyes even made starting from wheat. Phenol and other things to keep it free from beasties, aren't gluten anything.

 

I can't tell if this is a troll or not? Only a few posts and most have quite a bit of sarcastic wit to them.

 

Anyway, I can tell you, according to my local grocery store, the sirloin steak is indeed gluten free. Dodged a bullet with that one.

[transcend]

Well, I often lick my fingers and dry them against my pants to speed up the vanishing process. So, I would feel alot better if I knew I was ingesting certified organic and gluten free ink.

 

[Davros]

While the question may sound funny to you all, I can assure you that having celiac disease is not funny at all.

 

 

D.ick

It isn't funny AT ALL, which is why it should be comforting than this is one area with a great deal of safety.

 

Well, I often lick my fingers and dry them against my pants to speed up the vanishing process. So, I would feel alot better if I knew I was ingesting certified organic and gluten free ink.

 

 

I don't think you'll find that, since certified gluten-free products are usually reserved for products that sometimes have gluten.

[Mr. Pink]

Regardless of anyone's circumstances here, I'd about fall off my chair if any ink maker stated on the bottle, in their advertising, on their web-site, or any other conceivable place that their ink was gluten free.

[mhosea]

Celiac disease is, of course, a serious thing, and it is great that the food industry is now producing more options for people who cope with it. Unfortunately, everything gets out of hand.

 

I wouldn't expect that any FP inks contain any wheat gluten. I don't think many would be called "organic" in the food sense of the word. There is an interesting health question around nano-pigmented inks, chiefly around breathing in the particles but perhaps also around absorbing them through the skin. This is primarily a concern for manufacturing workers, I would expect, since the exposure you would get from using them should be very small.

 

Who knows what biocide makers are using. Dowicil 75 has extremely low toxicity, and the very low concentration of phenol present in some inks probably poses no danger. I'd be more concerned about the health effects of the sundry unknown dyes.

[amberleadavis]

Here is a post from a well respected ink maker - J Herbin in 1992.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/213803-update-on-j-herbin-ink-problems/

 

The explanation about ink toxicity is very informative.

 

While J Herbin inks are not organic, they are certainly safe as are other brands.

[BiggieD]

I don't think you'll find that, since certified gluten-free products are usually reserved for products that sometimes have gluten.

This explains why I haven't been able to find gluten free Christmas trees and gluten free pants!

 

The big one for me has been finding gluten free antifreeze. I like to like to lick my fingers after topping off my car's radiator.

Edited December 25, 2014 by BiggieD

[SeeksAdvice]

Some inks are made with industrial type dyes. I'm guessing that almost 100% of Noodler's inks aren't made with "naturally" occurring dyes.

J. Herbin makes inks with natural dyes, but I don't think that they are gluten-free.

 

In all, not sure that ink choice will have much effect with/without gluten.

 

Perhaps the most user-friendly inks would be Scribal Workshop, but I'm not even sure if they are around anymore...

[amberleadavis]

Oh, those Bunny inks from Scribal workshops are even safe for kids drinking it.

 

 

I have shown remarkable restraint in not posting Plistumi's ink drink picture.