What are the current challenges for individuals with celiac disease and those with non-celiac gluten sensitivity in terms of purchasing food products?
The current challenges for individuals with celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity in terms of purchasing food products is being able to locate gluten-free products that were more readily available prior to the pandemic but may be harder to find now. Due to COVID-19, food product manufacturers have had to make decisions regarding what their top priorities are because they’ve had to implement social distancing and other measures within their facilities. They have had to reduce the number of people working, making it harder to produce everything previously made or as much of each item as previously produced. For example, if you have a company producing traditional gluten-filled food and they also have one gluten-free item, they were more likely going to choose to stop producing the gluten-free item.